onyx
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[edit] English
[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] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɔnɪks/
[edit] Noun
onyx (countable and uncountable; plural onyxes)
- (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
[edit] Translations
a banded variety of chalcedony
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[edit] Adjective
onyx (not comparable)
- jet-black
- 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.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)[1], Genesis, 2:12
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[edit] References
- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988