Vocabulary : Bitterroot to Bitts
Bitterroot : A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum.Bitters : A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
Bittersweet : 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.
Bitterweed : A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
Bitterwood : A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
