The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roxbury waxwork
Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
Anything which is bittersweet.
A kind of apple so called.
--Gower.-
(Bot.)
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.
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.