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- Bitters - n. pl. - A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
- Bittersweet - a. - Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
- Bittersweet - n. - Anything which is bittersweet.
- Bittersweet - n. - A kind of apple so called.
- Bittersweet - n. - 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.
- Bittersweet - n. - 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.