Onyx

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground.

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onyx
ŏnyx, ychis, m. and f., = ὄνυξ (a fingernail; hence, from its color). I Fem. , a kind of yellowish ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
onyx
onyx ychis, m , ὄνυξ, a vessel of onyx, onyxbox: nardi parvus, H.: murrheus, for ointment, Pr. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary