Barometz

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]