Definition of Onychites

1. onychite [n] - See also: onychite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Onychites

onych-
onycha
onychalgia
onychas
onychatrophia
onychauxis
onychectomies
onychectomy
onychia
onychia lateralis
onychia maligna
onychia periungualis
onychia sicca
onychias
onychite
onychites (current term)
onychitis
onychiums
onycho-
onychoclasis
onychocryptosis
onychodystrophy
onychograph
onychogryphosis
onychogryposis
onychoheterotopia
onychoid
onychology
onycholysis
onychoma

Literary usage of Onychites

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

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"Tate and Blake state in ' The Yorkshire Lias ' * that they met with these pointed organisms in the 'Jamesoni beds' at Peak, agreeing with the onychites ..."

2. The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building by William Richard Lethaby, Harold Swainson (1894)
"onychites.—" The precious onyx" mentioned by the poet is the ... or onychites of the ancients. It is the oriental alabaster (aragonite) used in the ..."

3. The Natural History of Gems Or Decorative Stones by Charles William King (1867)
"Besides this, there are other sorts, similarly called onychites, resembling yellow ... These are called onychites (nail-stones) in natural history, ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"... of the ancients, or onychites, was not a marble proper, but a hard carbonate of lime, identical in composition with stalagmite, the modern alabaster. ..."

5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"... and onychites because of its beautiful banded structure. In the arts it is often now culled Oriental alabaster or onyx marble. Very beautiful marble of ..."

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