climbing bittersweet

Questions about climbing bittersweet

What does climbing bittersweet mean?

climbing bittersweet means "twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds".

What is another word for climbing bittersweet?

Close synonyms include bittersweet, American bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is climbing bittersweet a common word?

climbing bittersweet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.