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Roxbury waxwork

Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.

  1. Anything which is bittersweet.

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

  3. (Bot.)

    1. 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.

    2. 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.