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Brewer's: Sardonyx
An orange-brown cornelian. Pliny says it is called sard from Sardis, in Asia Minor, where it is found, and onyx, the nail, because its colour resembles that of the skin under the nail (xxxvii. 6).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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