Meaning of Bittersweet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
   countable, uncountable
2. Bittersweetness.
   countable, uncountable
3. A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
   US, countable, uncountable
4. A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
   countable, uncountable
5. Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
   countable, uncountable
6. A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Bitter ſweete bringeth foorth wooddie ſtalks as doth the Vine, parted into many ſlender creeping braunches, by which it climeth and taketh holde of hedges and ſhrubbes next vnto it. […] Bitter ſweet doth grow in moiſt places about ditches, riuers, and hedges, almoſt euery where.”

“I had once before visited these three villages, Skedans, Tanoo and Cumshewa. The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them.”

“Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums.”

“"They had a good crop of bitter-sweets, they couldn’t grind them all"—nodding towards an orchard where some heaps of apples had been left lying ever since the ingathering.”

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