Bit·ter·sweet, n.
 1. Anything which is bittersweet.
 2. A kind of apple so called.
 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.

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 Dul·ca·ma·ra n.  Bot. A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).

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 Dul·ca·ma·rin n. Chem. A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).

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 Fel·on·wort n. Bot. The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

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 Solanum dulcamara
      n : poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and
          oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
          [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, {climbing
          nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade,
           woody nightshade]