Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Barometz

Barometz ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Compare Russ. baranets' clubmoss.]

(Botany) 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.