Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Barometz \Bar"o*metz\, n. [Cf. Russ. baranets' clubmoss.] (Bot.)
   The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern ({Dicksonia
   barometz}), which, when specially prepared and inverted,
   somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also {Scythian lamb}.