单词 | Proconsul |
释义 | Proconsul /proh kon"seuhl/, n. an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17-20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids. [ < NL (1933), equiv. to pro- PRO-1 + Consul, allegedly the name of a chimpanzee in a London zoo (with a pun on L proconsul PROCONSUL); the genus was thought to be ancestral to the chimpanzee] |
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