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burgamot

burgamot is the archaic form of bergamot.

Meaning of bergamot

Noun

bergamot (countable and uncountable, plural bergamots)

  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
  5. Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
  6. Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.

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Forms of burgamot

pluralburgamots

Questions about burgamot

What is burgamot the archaic form of?
Burgamot is the archaic form of bergamot.

Words near burgamot in the dictionary

  1. burgage
  2. burgages
  3. Burgalese
  4. burgall
  5. burgalls
  6. burgamot
  7. burgamots
  8. Burgan
  9. burganet
  10. burganets
  11. Burgans

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