Meaning

2 senses
  1. A purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.

    Baumlamm, Pflanzliches Lamm, Skythisches Lamm

    баранецbaranec, бораме́цboraméc, боране́цboranéc

    баранецьbaranecʹ

  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.

    chinesischer Schatullenfarn

Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb:
Русский
By meaning 1
half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
half-animal and half-plant said to grow in the form of a sheep — see also vegetable lamb:
Cibotium barometz:

Origin

Possibly a corruption of Russian баране́ц (baranéc, “species of club moss (genus Lycopodiu

Possibly a corruption of Russian баране́ц (baranéc, “species of club moss (genus Lycopodium)”, from бара́н (barán, “ram (male sheep)”) + -ец (-ec, diminutive suffix)).

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Forms

plural: barometzes

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Scythian lambvegetable lambvegetable lamb of Tartary

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwatersheep

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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