[Gr. χερνίτης.] An ivory-like marble.
1731. Bailey, vol. II. Chernites, a stone like ivory used by the ancients to preserve dead bodies in.
1861. C. W. King, Ant. Gems (1866), 8. The Chernites is described as a stone only differing from ivory in its superior hardness and density: the sarcophagus of Darius the Great was made of it.