bergamot
nounEtymology From Bergamo.
1
Usually A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
bergamot
nounUS /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/ · UK /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/
Etymology From French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
7 senses
- 1A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus…
- 2The fruit from the bergamot tree.
- 3The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
- 4A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
- 5Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more…
- 6Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
- 7A variety of pear.
1
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. 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.
2
The fruit from the bergamot tree.
3
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
4
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
- The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot.1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
› Either of two plants of the mint family…
5
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
6
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
7
A variety of pear.
- One of my Neighbours has a Bergamot Pear Tree, that was brought from England in a Box , about the Year 1643a. 1724, Philosophical Transactions:
- Derived terms
- bergamot mint, bergamottin, wild bergamot
- Related terms
- Earl Grey