ophite

A mottled green rock composed of diabase.

Any of various green rocks, such as serpentine.

Pertaining to a serpent.

A name originally applied to certain eruptive (diabasic or doleritic) rocks occurring in the Pyrenees, and later used with similar meaning for rocks found in Spain, Portugal, and northern Africa.

A member of a Gnostic body, of very early origin, especially prominent in the second century, and existing as late as the sixth century.

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

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.

Of or pertaining to a serpent.