Ophite

Part of speech: noun (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. -- O*phi"ic, a.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]