vegetable lamb

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English

WOTD – 4 July 2017
An artist’s conception of a vegetable lamb, originally from a 1696 work.

Etymology

A shortened version of vegetable lamb of Tartary.

Pronunciation

Noun

vegetable lamb (plural vegetable lambs)

  1. (mythology) A legendary plant believed to grow sheep from its branches.
    Synonyms: barometz, lamb of Tartary, Tartarian lamb

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References

  1. ^ 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 (1696) Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium Ac Mirabilium Sciendorum, Nuremberg: Literis Knorzianis Norimbergae Lochner, →OCLC.

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