Barometz

Barometz
Barometz Bar"o*metz, n. [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}. [1913 Webster]

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  • barometz — /baˈrō mets/ noun 1. The Scythian lamb, a plant at one time supposed to be also animal, growing on a stalk but eating grass like a lamb, near the Caspian Sea 2. A tree fern (Cibotium or Dicksonia barometz), of the East Indies and Pacific islands …   Useful english dictionary

  • Barometz — Barometz, s. Baranetz …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • barometz — ● barometz nom masculin Fougère du nord de la Chine, qui devait à son rhizome, entouré d un duvet soyeux, la réputation légendaire au Moyen Âge de porter des fruits d où sortaient des agneaux …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • barometz — noun a) The woolly fern, Cibotium barometz. b) A Scythian Lamb; a joke creature, supposedly half animal and half plant, made by inverting a woolly fern …   Wiktionary

  • Dicksonia barometz — Barometz Bar o*metz, n. [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}. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Cibotium barometz —   Cibotium barometz …   Wikipedia Español

  • Cibotium barometz — Cibotium barometz …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Polypodium barometz — Cibotium barometz Cibotium barometz …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Cibotium barometz — Cibotium barometz …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Cibotium barometz — The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Svenska Familj Journalen, 1879 Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

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