Word Meaning

Meaning of "ophite" and the crossword clue

- Of or pertaining to a serpent.
- 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 mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.