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What is a pegmatite?

What is a pegmatite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A coarsely crystalline igneous or plutonic rock composed primarily of feldspar and quartz, normally with muscovite and/or biotite mica.
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This type of pegmatite, or one closely allied to it, also contains hiddenite as hypidiomorphic crystals within the pegmatite itself.
Large anhedral masses of yttrian fluorite, measuring to several feet across, were found at the White Cloud pegmatite.
They described a distorted 5.5 x 4-cm dodecahedral crystal of genthelvite from a small pegmatite near Stove Mountain.
The latter do not include typical pegmatite minerals and appear mainly along the tectonic fractures present at this locality.
The pegmatite is composed of microcline, plagioclase and quartz with minor amounts of clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, ilmenite and zircon.
In places, they contain blocks and fragments of surrounding lithologies as well as isolated boudins of granite pegmatite.

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