bergamot
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[edit] Etymology
French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta; probably a corruption of Turkish beg armdi (“‘a lord's pear’”).
[edit] Noun
bergamot
- (botany) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
- (botany) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, variety glabrata).
- The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
- A variety of pear. -Johnson.
- A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
- The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. - William Cowper.
- A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyclopedia Britannica.
[edit] Derived terms
- wild bergamot, an American herb of the Mint family Monarda fistulosa
[edit] Translations
- French : bergamote (1)(3)(4)
- Italian: bergamotto it(it) m. (1,3), bergamotta it(it) f. (4)

