| bittersweet | 1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. 3. <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bitterweed | <botany> A species of Ambrosia (A. Artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bitterwood | A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bitterwort | <botany> The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |