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Of or pertaining to a serpent.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to a serpent.
  2. n. 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.
  3. a. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
  4. Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.] 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. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
  5. Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
  6. a. Of or pertaining to a serpent. n. 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. A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.