Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pegmatite

Pegmatite , noun

[From Greek {not transcribed} something fastened together, in allusion to the quartz and feldspar in graphic granite: compare French pegmatite. See Pegm.]

(a)
(Mineralogy) Graphic granite. See under Granite.
(b)
(Mineralogy) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.