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pro•con•sul  (prō kon′səl),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Ancient History[Rom. Hist.]an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  2. Governmentany appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.
  • Latin prōconsul; see pro-1, consul
  • Middle English 1350–1400
pro•con′su•lar, adj. 
pro•con′su•lar•ly, adv. 

Pro•con•sul  (prō kon′səl),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
  • Neo-Latin (1933), equivalent. to pro- pro-1 + Consul, allegedly the name of a chimpanzee in a London zoo (with a pun on Latin prōconsul proconsul); the genus was thought to be ancestral to the chimpanzee

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