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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)