植物羊

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noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (medieval legendary plant-sheep hybrid)

Examples

Zhōngshìjì Ōuzhōu rén xiāngxìn zhíwùyáng zhēn de cúnzài.
Medieval Europeans believed the Vegetable Lamb really existed.
Suǒwèi de zhíwùyáng qíshí zhǐshì miánhuā de zǎoqī chuánshuō.
The so-called Vegetable Lamb was really an early legend about cotton.

Tips

culture
A medieval myth from Scythia/Tartary describing a plant that grew a living lamb as its fruit, tethered by an umbilical stem. It was a Western attempt to explain cotton, which Europeans had not yet seen growing. Sir John Mandeville popularized the tale in the 14th century.

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