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Mosaic vs Onycha - What's the difference?

mosaic | onycha |

As nouns the difference between mosaic and onycha

is that mosaic is mosaic while onycha is (obsolete) an ingredient of the mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

mosaic

English

Alternative forms

* mosaick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
  • (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
  • (botany) A viral disease of plants.
  • A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.

    • Related terms

    * alphamosaic * mosaicism * mosaicist * photomosaic

    See also

    * ("mosaic" on Wikipedia) *

    onycha

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.
  • :And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha , galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation
  • (obsolete) The precious stone onyx.
    • (Webster 1913) ----