vegetable lamb

English

WOTD – 4 July 2017

An artist’s conception of a vegetable lamb, originally from a 1696 work.[1]

A shortened version of vegetable lamb of Tartary.

vegetable lamb (plural vegetable lambs)

(mythology) A legendary plant believed to grow sheep from its branches.
Synonym: barometz

legendary plant believed to grow sheep from its branches

Arabic: نَبْتَة الْحَمَل الْتَتَارِيَة‎ f (nabta(t) al-ḥamal al-tatāriya)
Catalan: corder vegetal de Tartària m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 植物羊 (zhíwùyáng)
Dutch: barometz n, plantaardige lam van Tartarije n
French: agneau tartare m, agneau de Scythie m, barometz (fr) m
Galician: año vexetal m
German: Skythisches Lamm n, Pflanzliches Lamm n, Baumlamm n
Greek: σκυθικός αμνός m (skythikós amnós), φυτικό αρνί της Ταρταρίας n (fytikó arní tis Tartarías)
Hungarian: tatár bárányfű, zöldségesbárány
Italian: agnello vegetale della Tartaria m
Japanese: バロメッツ (baromettsu)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: agnus scythicus m, agnus vegetābilis m, agnus tartaricus m
Portuguese: cordeiro vegetal m, cordeiro vegetal da Tartária m, borametz m
Russian: баране́ц m (baranéc), боране́ц m (boranéc), бораме́ц m (boraméc), тата́рский ове́н m (tatárskij ovén), а́гнец ски́фский m (ágnec skífskij)
Spanish: cordero vegetal de Tartaria m
Swedish: tatariskt växtlamm n
Thai: ต้นแกะแห่งทาทารี (dtôn-gɛ̀ hɛ̀ng taa-taa-rii)
Vietnamese: cây cừu

Henry Lee (1887) The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant; to which is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, redrawn from Joanne Zahn [Johannes Zahn] (1696) Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium Ac Mirabilium Sciendorum, Nuremberg: Literis Knorzianis Norimbergae Lochner, →OCLC.