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Permian(dictionary)
Permian Period(encyclopedia)

uniform (iou) and Permian (iou)


uniform (iou)



uniform verb trans. L16.
[from UNIFORM noun, adjective.]
Make conformable to. Only in L16.
Make (a number of people or things) uniform or alike; bring to uniformity. L17.
Clothe in uniform. Freq. as uniformed ppl adjective. E19.
Aldous Huxley The British Freemen are uniformed in green.

Permian (iou)



Permian noun & adjective. L16.
[from Perm, a city and province in the west of the Urals + -IAN.]
A. noun.
(A person who speaks) any of the Permic Languages. L16.
Geology. The Permian period; the system of rocks Dating from this time. L16.
b. adjective.
Geology. Designating or pertaining to the last period of the Palaeozoic era, following the Carboniferous and preceding the Triassic, in which amphibians, and reptiles resembling mammals, flourished and many sandstones were deposited. M19.
Designating (people who speak any of) the Permic Languages. L19.