Ophite

(ō′fit, 49), n. [Fr. ophite, Lat. ophites, Gr. ὀφίτης (sc. λίθος), a kind of marble spotted like a serpent. See supra.] (Min.) Serpentine; also, one of the varieties of serpentine or verd-antique marble; also, green porphyry; — so called from the spots of different colors which give it a mottled appearance resembling the skin of a snake.

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of a Gnostic sect of the second century, who paid worship to a serpent.