barometz

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barometz - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]