Bittersweet

Definition of Bittersweet

Bit´ter`sweet`

a.	1.	Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
n.	1.	Anything which is bittersweet.
	2.	A kind of apple so called.
	3.	(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.

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