Sentence:  That is the version in which the <WSD>barometz</WSD> grows out of the ground, being attached to its root system by its umbilical cord and capable of feeding only as far as that cord will reach — a perfect counterpart to the Jidra of the Talmud. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.