OPHITE (2)

O″phite, n. [[L. ophites, Gr. οφἴτησ (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.