資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub ({Celastrus scandens}).
It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
seeds.
Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
1. Anything which is bittersweet.
2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower.
3. (Bot.)
(a) 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.
(b) 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}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Celastrus scandens
n : twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow
capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American
bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet},
{staff vine}, {waxwork}]