onyx
Meanings
noun
- 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.
adj
- Jet-black; often, glossily so.
name
- A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
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From Middle English onix (c. 1300), earlier oniche (c. 1250), from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “onyx”). Doublet of unguis.
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