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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ophite
 輝綠岩之一種

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·phite, n.  Eccl. Hist. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·phite a.  Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·phite, n.  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.