| 释义 |
onyxon‧yx /ˈɒnɪks $ ˈɑː-/ noun [uncountable]   onyxOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French, Latin, from Greek, ‘claw, nail’ - Augle took that easily with his big onyx blaster.
- He had stopped her as she was walking solemnly round the small onyx coffee tables, among the guests.
- He ruminated on the idea and nervously plucked a cigarette from the green onyx box beside the telephone.
- It means that I need a stone as good as the onyx.
- Madeleine pushed a green onyx ashtray within his reach.
- Sumerian gem-cutters also took advantage to a limited degree of another way of exploiting the banded structure of onyx.
- The onyx was shipped to Tijuana to be fabricated into bookends, chessmen and other tourist kitsch.
- The pink speckled beans looked like tiny onyx eggs.
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