barometzn.
/ˈbarəmɛts/ A spurious natural-history specimen, consisting of the creeping root-stock and frond-stalks of a woolly fern ( Cibotium barometz) turned upside down; formerly represented as a creature half-animal and half-plant, and called the Scythian Lamb (already referred to by Maundevile, ch. xxvi. p. 264).
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1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I ii. 30 Shines, gentle Barometz! thy golden hair.
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 485/2.
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