单词 | barometz |
释义 | barometzn. A spurious natural-history specimen, consisting of the creeping root-stock and frond-stalks of a woolly fern ( Cibotium barometz) turned upside down; formerly represented as a creature half-animal and half-plant, and called the Scythian Lamb (already referred to by Maundevile, ch. xxvi. p. 264). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > animal and plant vegetable lamb1698 barometz1791 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I ii. 30 Shines, gentle Barometz! thy golden hair. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 485/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1791 |
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