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.
n. 纤闪辉绿岩