| 单词 | proconsul |
| 释义 | proconsul (once / 5749 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY proconsul: proconsular, proconsuls, proconsulship+/proconsulship: proconsulships USAGE EXAMPLESOlympia and her brother Nicanor, a Roman proconsul, are dealing with this pesky sectarian cult following some Jewish prophet murdered in Jerusalem. Washington Post(Dec 17, 2015) Leakey’s career had many highlights: She discovered the skull of the apelike Proconsul africanus, which lived about 25 million years ago. New York Times(Dec 08, 2015) The sample also included the 25-million-year-old fossil ape known as Proconsul. Science Magazine(Jul 14, 2015) 1 1n a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire Hyper governor the head of a state government 2n an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power 2Hyper functionary, official a worker who holds or is invested with an office n an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul Hyper hominoid a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea |
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