Bible Dictionaries
Permian

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.

(2):

(n.) The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Permian'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/permian.html. 1828.