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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, a.
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet
with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but
painful.
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®
bittersweet
n 1: poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and
oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
[syn: {bittersweet nightshade}, {climbing nightshade}, {deadly
nightshade}, {poisonous nightshade}, {woody nightshade},
{Solanum dulcamara}]
2: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow
capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {American
bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet},
{staff vine}, {waxwork}, {Celastrus scandens}]
bittersweet
adj 1: tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"
2: having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
[syn: {semisweet}]