ophite
/'ɒfait/
📖 中文释义
- n. 纤闪辉绿岩
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- 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.