onyx
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɒnɪks/
onyx
- (mineral) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
- A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.
onyx (not comparable)
- jet-black
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:, Genesis, 2:12
- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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