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noun small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0