barometz, baranetz

[Ru . bar a nez = club-mo .] Bot. A fraudulently constructed natural history specimen, called also the Scythian Lamb, and represented as being half animal and half plant. In reality it is a woolly-skinned fern ( Cibotium barometz ), stripped of everything but its root-stock and the stipes or stalks of four of its fronds, and then turned upside down. Of course no naturalist would for a moment be deceived by a deception so easily detected. (Lindley.) [See figure under the name Agnus Scythicus (Scythian lamb.).]