bergamot

1. an oily substance extracted from the rind of a dwarf variety of Seville orange, used in cosmetics and as flavouring in Earl Grey tea.
2. the tree which bears a variety of Seville orange from which bergamot is extracted.
3. an aromatic North American herb of the mint family.

late 17th century (in bergamot¹ (sense 2)): named after the city and province of Bergamo in northern Italy.

noun

a dessert pear of a rich and sweet variety.

early 17th century: from French bergamotte, from Italian bergamotta, from Turkish begarmudu ‘prince's pear’, from beg ‘prince’ + armud ‘pear’ + the possessive suffix -u .