Barometz Definition

noun

The woolly fern, Cibotium barometz.

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A Scythian Lamb; a joke creature, supposedly half animal and half plant, made by inverting a woolly fern.

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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a mythical plant believed to grow sheep as its fruit.

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Origin of Barometz

Possibly a corruption of Russian баранец (baranéc), from баран (baran, “ram”), used to describe a species of club moss.

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