Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Jet-black; often, glossily so.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA 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.
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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