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noun
- (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
Translations: - Dutch: onyx
- French: onyx
- German: Onyx
- Spanish: ónix
adjective
- jet-black
Etymology: Before 1300 as onix, in about 1250 as oneche, from Old French oniche or onix, or from Latin onyx, from Greek á (onyx).<ref>Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988</ref>
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