Definition of American bittersweet

1. Noun. Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of American Bittersweet

American arborvitae
American arrowroot
American as apple pie
American aspen
American badger
American barberry
American beaver
American beavers
American beech
American bison
American bisons
American bittern
American bitterns
American bittersweet (current term)
American black bear
American black vulture
American black vultures
American blight
American bog asphodel
American brooklime
American buffalo
American bugbane
American capital
American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel

Literary usage of American bittersweet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1868)
"American bittersweet. Like the Bittersweet, its stems assist in the support of decaying wood-work upon which it may cling (fig. 84), while the great beauty ..."

2. Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on Or Near the Coast by Alice Lounsberry (1910)
"Near many seaside gardens, the American bittersweet, or staff vine, Celastrus scandens, can be used to cover rough roadside walls. ..."

3. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"American bittersweet. A high climbing vine with broadly lanceolate bright green leaves. Distributed naturally from Canada and Dakota, southward to Georgia ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William MacKinley Klein (1993)
"... Celastrus scandens L. American bittersweet Woody vine Dry fields, rocky ledges, woods and thickets. ..."

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