onyx

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Quotations 1.4 See also 1.5 References

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[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

onyx (countable and uncountable; plural onyxes)

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

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[edit] Adjective

onyx (not comparable)

1. jet-black

[edit] Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1], Genesis, 2:12

  And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

[edit] See also

• sardonyx

[edit] References

• Notes:

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