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Definition of "sardonyx" []

  • An onyx with alternating brown and white bands of sard and other minerals. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sardonyx" in a sentence
  • "Heb., but the twelfth in the Greek; it is called sardonyx and comes in the fifth place in Apoc., xxi, 20."
  • "But the sardonyx was a finer stone than the amethyst, and he ended by giving me three hundred and fifty livres."
  • "He drew with the sinuous curves and twining lines of Art Nouveau, and he dared to combine diamonds and precious stones with horn, ivory, agate, sardonyx, copper, brilliantly colored enamel and eventually glass."