Bēr'ga-mōt, n.

n. [Fr. bergamote, Sp. bergamota, bergamoto, It. bergamotta, bergamotto, from the town of Bergamo, in Italy.]

1. (Bot.) A species of the genus Citrus, or of the orange-tree family (C. bergamia), having a pear-shaped fruit of fine taste and odor, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Baird.
2. The essence or perfume itself.
3. A delicious variety of pear. Johnson.
4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. “Gives the nose its bergamot.” Cooper.
5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured with flocks of wool, silk, cotton, hemp, and ox or goat’s hair, said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.