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Webster 1913 Edition
Barometz
Bar′o-metz
,Noun.
[Cf. Russ.
baranets’
clubmoss.] (Bot.)
The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (
Dicksonia barometz
), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; – called also Scythian lamb
. Definition 2024
barometz
barometz
English
Cibotium barometz
Noun
barometz (plural barometzes)
- The woolly fern, Cibotium barometz.
- A Scythian Lamb: a joke creature, supposedly half animal and half plant, made by inverting a woolly fern.
- The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a mythical plant believed to grow sheep as its fruit.