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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geology, a name sometimes applied to the Permian system, from its being divided into two principal groups. Compare Trias. See Permian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

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