a species of citron, Citrus limetta, distinguished from the orange and lemon by having wingless leaf-stalks. It is a native of the south of Europe, and is produced abundantly in the neighbourhood of Nice. The fruit has a delicious taste and smell, and its essential oil is highly esteemed as a perfume. The essence of bergamot is also called essenza di cedro. It is extracted from the yellow rind of the fruit by cutting it in small pieces, and expressing the oil, or by distilling it from water. One hundred bergamots of Nice yield, by expression, 2½ ounces of oil.

BERGAMOT is also the denomination of a coarse tapestry, manufactured with flocks of silk, wool, cotton, hemp, cow's or goat's hair, and supposed to have been invented at Bergamo in Italy.