Dulcamara means "bittersweet" (literally "sweet-bitter"). It can refer to: Solanum dulcamara, a plant Dulcamara, a synonym and proposed section of the genus Solanum Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack, an 1866 play by W. S. Gilbert Dr. Dulcamara, a character in L'elisir d'amore, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti