| 单词 | vegetable lamb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable lamb c. vegetable lamb: = barometz n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > animal and plant vegetable lamb1698 barometz1791 1698 tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 125 I am not very apt to give credit to the Relations of the vulgar sort in Muscovy, among which, that of the Vegetable Lamm is a general received Fable. vegetable lamb vegetable lamb n. now historical a plant believed to resemble a lamb, originally supposed to be part plant and part animal; esp. the tree fern Cibotium barometz, which has a woolly rhizome (= barometz n.). ΚΠ 1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 40 This is more evident in the Plantanimals, as the Vegetable Lamb, the Arbor Casta, and severall others. 1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 155 In Tartary's barren soil, grow the medicinal jingseng, and the vegetable lamb. 1852 Q. Rev. Jan. 47 A vegetable of some notoriety is the Cibotium Barometz, or Scythian lamb—the vegetable lamb of Tartary. 1927 H. B. Brown Cotton i. 3 Many strange and fabulous tales were told [about cotton], among which was the story of the Vegetable Lamb, or Zoöphyte, a being part animal and part plant. 1999 J. Bondesdon Feejee Mermaid 217 The vegetable lamb legend seems to have been taken over from a preexisting Chinese tradition that existed already in the fifth century, and probably even earlier. < as lemmas |
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