onyx marble

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   a hard compact kind of calcite

   Synonymsalabasteroriental alabasterMexican onyx

   Broadercalcite

Questions about onyx marble

What does onyx marble mean?

onyx marble means "a hard compact kind of calcite".

What is another word for onyx marble?

Close synonyms include alabaster, oriental alabaster, Mexican onyx. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is onyx marble a common word?

onyx marble is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.