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ophite

/'ɒfait/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. 纤闪辉绿岩
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. a. Of or pertaining to a serpent.
  2. n. A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene
  3. has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called
  4. from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.
  5. a. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second
  6. century.