[App. an erroneous adaptation of Russ. baranets (dimin. of baran ‘ram’) applied to species of Club-moss, Lycopodium.] 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).
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 279. Waves, gentle Barometz, thy golden hair.
1835. Penny Cycl., III. 485/2.
