Definition of Mexican onyx

1. Noun. A hard compact kind of calcite.

Exact synonyms: Alabaster, Onyx Marble, Oriental Alabaster
Generic synonyms: Calcite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Onyx

Mexican green
Mexican hairless
Mexican hairlesses
Mexican hand tree
Mexican hat
Mexican hat cell
Mexican hat corpuscle
Mexican husk tomato
Mexican hyssop
Mexican jumping bean
Mexican jumping beans
Mexican juniper
Mexican mint
Mexican monetary unit
Mexican nut pine
Mexican onyx (current term)
Mexican overdrive
Mexican peso
Mexican plateau
Mexican pocket mouse
Mexican poppy
Mexican standoff
Mexican sunflower
Mexican swamp cypress
Mexican tea
Mexican tulip poppy
Mexican valium
Mexican wave
Mexican waves
Mexican wolf

Literary usage of Mexican onyx

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"The locality is uncertain, though the specimen examined purported to be "from Spain." Mexican onyx. This beautiful stone, so much admired in the Mexican ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1902)
"... one hundred times as much Mexican onyx has been thus shaped and wrought as was ever used in ancient Mexico. The modern artists often present grotesque, ..."

3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"Tlie only gem stone systematically mini-*! in Mexico at the present time is opal and the only important ornamental stone is the Mexican onyx ..."

4. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"The Mexican onyx is actually an aragonite, and is softer than the real onyx. ... The Mexican onyx is used extensively in the jewelers' trade; ..."

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