Ophite /(?)/

O·phite

Ophite

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]

Ophite

n.
  1. 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. (Min.)

Ophite

n.
  1. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century. (Eccl. Hist.)