- Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp.
sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. - Anything which is bittersweet. - A kind of apple so called. - 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.
- A climbing shrub - A creeper - After four, why become a climber? - Batman's poisonous enemy? - Climber met sticky end after four - Climbing plant - Climbing vine