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pegmatite

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peg=ma=tite

CIDE DICTIONARY

pegmatiten. [From Gr. something fastened together, in allusion to the quartz and feldspar in graphic granite: cf. F. pegmatite. See Pegm.].
     Graphic granite. See under Granite.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pegmatite, n. a coarsely crystalline type of granite.

Etymology
Gk pegma -atos thing joined together f. pegnumi fasten

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