pegmatite

Meaning of pegmatite

noun
  1. a coarsely crystalline granite or other igneous rock with crystals several centimetres in length.
    tourmaline occurs mainly in granites, pegmatites, and greisens
    pegmatite dykes

mid 19th century: from Greek pēgma, pēgmat- ‘thing joined together’ + -ite1.

Information about pegmatite

Hyphenation of pegmatite

peg-matite

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • pegmatite is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with pegmatite

Tite, tite, Encratite, Sifatite, aenigmatite, agoniatite, apatite, aromatite, banatite, carbonatite, ceratite, ceyssatite, chiviatite, chlorapatite, chrismatite, clematite, crioceratite, cyrtoceratite, durapatite, encratite, endoceratite, enstatite, fluorapatite, goniatite, grammatite, granatite, grenatite, guanajuatite, hematite, hepatite, hieratite, hydrohematite, hydroxyapatite, hydroxylapatite, latite, manganapatite, marmatite, micropegmatite, migmatite, orthoceratite, pencatite, ratite, steatite, syntagmatite, tavolatite, zaratite, Loctite, Tractite, allactite, apotactite

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