bittersweet

• ⇰ Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (<mark>Fig.</mark>), pleasant but painful.

• ⇰ Anything which is bittersweet.
• ⇰ A kind of apple so called.
• ⇰ A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (<spn>Solanum dulcamara</spn>); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal <prod>dulcamara</prod>.