noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Scythian lamb, vegetable lamb, vegetable lamb of Tartary
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 2
A golden chicken fern or woolly fern (Cibotium barometz), the rhizomes of which are covered in furry brown hair; the legend (sense 1) is supposed to have arisen because, when inverted, the rhizomes with stalks growing out of them resemble lambs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Possibly a corruption of Russian баране́ц (baranéc, “species of club moss (genus Lycopodium)”, from бара́н (barán, “ram (male sheep)”) + -ец (-ec, diminutive suffix)).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Chinese Mandarin:
植物羊
(zhíwùyáng)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Dutch:
barometz
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
French:
barometz
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
German:
Baumlamm
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
German:
Pflanzliches Lamm
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
German:
Skythisches Lamm
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Japanese:
バロメッツ
(baromettsu)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Portuguese:
borametz
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Russian:
баранец
(baranec)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Russian:
бораме́ц
(boraméc)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Russian:
боране́ц
(boranéc)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Ukrainian:
баранець
(baranecʹ)
— half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb
Chinese Mandarin:
金狗毛蕨
(jīngǒumáojué)
— Cibotium barometz
