English dictionary: words starting with ony

noun

An ingredient of incense used in mosaic ritual, consisting of the opercula of marine molluscs, which emit a penetrating aroma when burnt.

noun

Originally: †a whitlow affecting a fingernail or toenail; = paronychia (obsolete). later: disease, especially inflammation or infection, of the nail matrix, resulting in deformity or loss of the nail plate.

noun

Onyx marble.

noun

Excessive growth, accompanied by thickening and curvature, of one or more nails (usually toenails).

noun

Divination from the fingernails.

noun

Fungal infection of a nail, claw, or hoof; an instance of this.

noun

Disease of the fingernails or toenails; an instance of this.

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The action or habit of biting one's nails.

noun

A person who bites his or her nails, especially habitually or compulsively.

noun

= onychophagia .

plural noun

A small phylum of terrestrial invertebrates which comprises the velvet worms such as peripatus. they share characteristics with the arthropods and annelids, having a long, soft segmented body with stubby legs (lobopods).

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Other ecdysozoan phyla include nematoda, tardigrada, and onychophora; this classification thus remo…

noun

A terrestrial invertebrate of the small phylum onychophora, which comprises the velvet worms.

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A number of fossils from the cambrian have been described which look more or less like onychophorans.

adjective

Relating to or denoting onychophorans.

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In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, …

Forming nouns denoting a type of name.

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Pseudonym

noun

= onychomancy .

adjective

Onomastic.

noun

The condition of being onymous, or named.

adjective

Having a name; named.

noun

A semi-precious variety of agate with different colours in layers.

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An onyx ashtray

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A semi-precious variety of agate with different colours in layers.

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An onyx ashtray