Ophite \O"phite\, n. [L. ophites, Gr. 'ofi`ths (sc. ?), a kind
of marble spotted like a serpent: cf. F. ophite.] (Min.)
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.
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