bergamot

Meaning

Noun

• A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon (nothospecies), syn. Citrus bergamia (species)), 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.
• The fruit from the bergamot tree
• The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
• A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
• Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
• A variety of pear.
• A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.

Origin

• French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
• From Bergamo