bergamot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery

   The perfumer extracted fragrant oil from the rind of a bergamot.

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.

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