(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have no idea how much she spends in Tesco, or whether there is any onyx in her home fitments.
(2) In response to the need for automated assistance with this class of problems, we have devised a computer program called ONYX that combines decision-theoretic and artificial intelligence approaches to planning.
(3) Cregan should have been easy to spot: he was missing an eye and would wear a mismatched onyx eye in a startling black in its place.
Oryx
Definition:
(n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was carried out to determine the effect on the reproductive performance of female Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood when allowed to feed, in vitro, for 63 days on fresh defibrinated blood of buffalo, bushbuck, cattle, eland, oryx, warthog, waterbuck or wildebeest.
(2) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
(3) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
(4) Pronounced, disperse, chronic, multinodular folliculitis induced by this hair follicle inhabitant in the skin of eland, Taurotragus oryx, is described at the histological level.
(5) Of 62 topi sera 40 per cent neutralised WC11 virus, while all of three oryx sera were positive.
(6) Two captive eland (Taurotragus oryx) were inoculated and their blood investigated as with the experimental buffalo.
(7) Other subfamilies of Bovidae with high prevalence of virus-neutralizing antibodies to AHV-1 included Hippotraginae (oryx and addax) and Caprinae (sheep and goats), with prevalence of 45% and 29%, respectively.
(8) This paper reports the stabilization of an open comminuted fracture of the metatarsus of a rare white Arabian oryx using an original Ilisarov-fixator.
(9) However, 50% or more of helmeted guinea fowl and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; helmeted guinea fowl, scrub hares and eland (Taurotragus oryx) from the Mountain Zebra National Park; helmeted guinea fowl, kudu, domestic sheep, goats and cattle on the farm "Bucklands", and caracal (Felis caracal) from the Cradock and Southwell areas of the eastern Cape Province were infested with immature A. marmoreum.
(10) A Robertsonian translocation was found in a herd of Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx).
(11) They shoot desert species of gazelle, oryx and Nubian ibex, and take them home as trophies.
(12) During a pilot survey of the parasites of some artiodactylids in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park a new species of Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905 was recovered from the small intestine of a steenbok, Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg, 1811), a gemsbok, Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758), and a red hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas, 1766).
(13) And Oryx and Crake is dealing with tendencies that are global rather than country-specific or allied to national politics.
(14) Blood samples obtained from 73 captive Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) were analyzed for hematology and serum chemistry values.
(15) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
(16) Twenty-three biochemistry parameters and hematocrit were followed during 10 days in a 13 months old Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) during capture myopathy.
(17) Cryptosporidium was found in the intestinal tract of 10 blackbuck, 2 scimitar-horned oryx, 2 fringe-eared oryx, 2 addax, and 1 sable antelope that had diarrhea.
(18) The elliptocytic shape of the camelid erythrocyte is very stable and has a high resistance to modification by drugs and treatment which alter the shape of the discocytic erythrocytes of scimitar-horned oryx and man.
(19) were found in eland (Taurotragus oryx), oryx (Oryx beisa) and camels (Camelus dromedarius).
(20) Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from the tissues of both oryxes and from fluid aspirated from the mammary gland of 1 oryx; the organism was pathogenic for guinea pigs but not for rabbits.