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Onyx vs Onycha - What's the difference?

onyx | onycha |

As nouns the difference between onyx and onycha

is that onyx is (mineralogy) a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz while onycha is (obsolete) an ingredient of the mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

As an adjective onyx

is jet-black.

onyx

English

(wikipedia onyx)

Noun

  • (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
  • A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • jet-black
  • * , Genesis, 2:12
    • And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2 citation
    • , passage=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

    See also

    * sardonyx

    References

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    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) ----