Definitions for sardonyx

sardonyx sar·don·yx

Spelling: [sahr-don-iks, sahr-dn-]
IPA: /sɑrˈdɒn ɪks, ˈsɑr dn-/

Sardonyx is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in sardonyx (adnorsxy).

Definitions for sardonyx

noun

  1. a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.

Origin of sardonyx

1300-50; Middle English Latin Greek sardónyx; see sard, onyx

Examples for sardonyx

Only Neech stood out clear-cut as the intagliation of a sardonyx.

The sardonyx was supposed by the ancients to be a different stone from the onyx.

Van Busch was in the act of taking back the sardonyx signet-ring.

And I wondered if it would be the sardonyx or the ruby, and hoped it would be the ruby.

And after dinner she read me the first part of sardonyx; it took three hours.

It is a happy phrase, that which closes the career of sardonyx.

Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian.

Then there was a pause, and then, last of all, arrived Mr. sardonyx.

On a rock of sardonyx he strove to break it then, but Durendala remained unharmed.

But they have no more to do with Sardinians than they have with sardines or sardonyx.

Word Value for sardonyx
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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