bergamot

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta; probably a corruption of Turkish beg armdi (“‘a lord's pear’”).

[edit] Noun

bergamot

1. (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.
2. (botany) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, variety glabrata).
3. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
4. A variety of pear. -Johnson.
5. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.

   The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. - William Cowper.

6. 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)