barometz

  1. Noun.  The woolly fern, ''Cibotium barometz''.
  2. Noun.  A Scythian Lamb; a joke creature, supposedly half animal and half plant, made by inverting a woolly fern.
  3. Noun.  The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a mythical plant believed to grow sheep as its fruit.

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