| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to a serpent. |
| n. | 1. | (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. |
| 1. | (Eccl. Hist.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century. |