Agnus Scythicus

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Ag´nus Scyth´i`cus

(Bot.) The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

(1) This curious organism, variously known as the Barometz or the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, occurs rather differently in the Talmudic tradition, which describes the lamb attached by its navel to a stem rooted in the earth.

(2) Henry Lee, The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1887), pp.

Meat or vegetables? New Zealand's literary sheep and Guthrie-Smith's Tutira

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