资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
   1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
      or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

   2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub ({Celastrus scandens}).
      It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
      in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
      seeds.

Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
   1. Anything which is bittersweet.

   2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower.

   3. (Bot.)
      (a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries
          ({Solanum dulcamara}); woody nightshade. The whole
          plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish
          and then bitter. The branches are the officinal
          dulcamara.
      (b) An American woody climber ({Celastrus scandens}),
          whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and
          disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also
          called {Roxbury waxwork}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Celastrus scandens
     n : twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow
         capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American
         bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet},
          {staff vine}, {waxwork}]