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Onyx

[edit] Etymology

Before 1300 as onix, in about 1250 as oneche, from Old French oniche or onix, or from Latin onyx, from Greek ὄνυξ (onyx).[1]

[edit] Noun

Singular
onyx

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural onyxes

onyx (countable and uncountable; plural onyxes)

  1. (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

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onyx (not comparable)

Positive
onyx

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. jet-black

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  • Notes:
  1. ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988