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

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}.