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Bergamot Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Bergamot has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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.

3

A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
orange

Origin

The word bergamot comes from Ottoman Turkish beg armudi, which literally means "a lord's pear." By the late 1600s, the term had shifted in European languages to describe a specific type of citrus fruit instead of the original pear variety.

Rhyming Words
mot gemot momot motmot dermot marmot carmot bonmot summot wilmot bon mot filemot philomot guillemot witenagemot hoary marmot bobak marmot wild bergamot alpine marmot black guillemot
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