Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pharmaceutical name for the bittersweet, Solanum Dulcamara, a common hedge-plant through Europe and the Mediterranean region, and naturalized in the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant (
Solanum Dulcamara ). Seebittersweet , n., 3 (a).
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Examples
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Gaetano Donizetti Milan, Italy, 1832Frequently performed and a cheerfully reassuring first step into opera, this is the comic tale of the fraudulent quack Dulcamara who dupes the poor, lovesick Nemorino with his "elixir"; melodic, witty, heart-warming and touchingly silly.
Top 50 operas 2011
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Also compelling are Stefania Dovhan as the vain Adina, José Adán Pérez as the pompous soldier Belcore, and Marco Nisticò as the quintessential snake-oil salesman Dulcamara.
Slipping Over the Edge at City Opera Heidi Waleson 2011
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Opposite him was the legendary Alessandro Corbelli whose Dulcamara seemed effortless and very funny.
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Opposite him was the legendary Alessandro Corbelli whose Dulcamara seemed effortless and very funny.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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It's too difficult for the chorus to sing rapidly, and even the master of patter song, Andrew Shore, who is a great Dulcamara, seemed to find it hard going.
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As all the reviewers said, the singing was very good all around, with special honors to Alessandro Corbelli as Dulcamara the Belcore huffed his way through the fioriture, yeesh, but has a good voice, and production was adorable, though I dispute the plausibility of the girl in overalls considering that it's 1915 or so.
Just Sayin' Lisa Hirsch 2008
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As all the reviewers said, the singing was very good all around, with special honors to Alessandro Corbelli as Dulcamara the Belcore huffed his way through the fioriture, yeesh, but has a good voice, and production was adorable, though I dispute the plausibility of the girl in overalls considering that it's 1915 or so.
Archive 2008-12-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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Dulcamara_, in _Anagallis_, in _Fuchsia_, and some other plants, the anther-lobes themselves become petaloid, while the filament remains unchanged.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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(_Solanum Dulcamara_), wax-work (_Celastrus scandens_).
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Like "Don Pasquale," the opera is exceedingly graceful in its construction, and very bright and gay in its musical effects, particularly in the duets, of which there are two, -- one between Dulcamara and Nemorino in the first act ( "Obbligato, ah! si obbligato"), and one between Dulcamara and Adina in the second act
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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