English Dictionary

bittersweet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɪtɚˌswit/

名詞

アメリカ英語

Solanum dulcamara. / Bittersweetness. / (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds. / A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.

日本語の意味

ソラナム・デュルカマラという植物、一般につる性の多年草である。 / ビタースウィートネス、すなわち甘さと苦さが混じり合った状態や感情。 / （米国における用法）Celastrus属のつる植物で、小さなオレンジ色の果実が開き、赤い種を露出するもの。 / ほろ苦い味わいを持つリンゴの一品種。

A tangle of bittersweet spilled over the old stone wall, its clusters of purple flowers and red berries glinting in the sunlight.

ソラナム・ドルカマラ（つる性のナス科植物）が古い石垣に絡まり、紫色の花と赤い実が日差しにきらめいていた。

意味（1）

Solanum dulcamara.

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.

意味（2）

Bittersweetness.

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.

意味（3）

(US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.

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.

意味（4）

A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.

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.

意味（5）

Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae

意味（6）

A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.

bittersweet:

bittersweets （ plural ）