Ophiic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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