Oryx vs Onyx - What's the difference?
oryx | onyx |
Any of several antelopes, of genus Oryx , native to Africa, the males and females of which have long, straight horns.
(mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
jet-black
* , Genesis, 2:12
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2
, 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
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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
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* sabre antelopeonyx
English
(wikipedia onyx)Noun
Adjective
(-)- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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