·adj Of or pertaining to a serpent.
II. Ophite ·adj A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
III. Ophite ·noun 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.