Bār'o-metz, n.

noun

(-mets), n. [Cf. Per. barah, lamb, and Russ. baranez, club-moss.] [Bot.] A singular vegetable production, consisting of the prostrate hairy stem of the fern Aspidium barometz, which, when prepared in a particular way, has the appearance of a lamb; whence it is called Scythian or Tartarean lamb.

The illustration depicts the legendary vegetable lamb, a plant said to bear a lamb-shaped growth. — Barometz.