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Bitter End
- noun - (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt
- the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be); "he was determined to fight to the bitter end"
Bitter Pea
- noun - any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds; Australia
Bitterbump
- - the butterbump or bittern.
Bitterling
- - A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
Bitterness
- noun -
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- a rough and bitter manner
Bitternuts
- noun - hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
Bitterroot
- noun - showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
Bitterweed
- noun - any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
- widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
Bitterwood
- noun - handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
- medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits
- West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
Bitterwort
- - The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.