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Equigranular Texture

From Andrew Alden, About.com

Rocks with equigranular ("EC-wi-GRAN-ular") texture have mineral grains that are generally the same size. This example is a granite.
Same-sized grainsPhoto (c) 2006 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com
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