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Webster 1913 Edition


Barometz

Bar′o-metz

,
Noun.
[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
.