Ophite

[ɒfait]

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to a serpent.

(n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.

(a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

Typist: Lottie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. (Min.) Serpentine, green porphyry.

Typist: Shane