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countable and uncountable, plural onyxes
(mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. quotations examples
People talk about using marble in the bathrooms. Marble wasn't good enough for use—we have onyx!
2023 September 23, Tom Robbins, “Suite dreams”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1
A jet-black color, named after the gemstone. examples
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga. examples
not comparable
jet-black quotations examples
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […]
There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky : a black night and very silent on Cimiez ; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah […]
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/7/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days