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Oryx vs Onyx - What's the difference?

oryx | onyx |

As nouns the difference between oryx and onyx

is that oryx is any of several antelopes, of genus Oryx, native to Africa, the males and females of which have long, straight horns while onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

As an adjective onyx is

jet-black.

oryx

English

(wikipedia oryx) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of several antelopes, of genus Oryx , native to Africa, the males and females of which have long, straight horns.

    • Synonyms

    * sabre antelope

    Anagrams

    * English invariant nouns English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    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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