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pro•con•sul



Pronunciation: (prō-kon'sul), [key]
—n.
1. 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. any appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.

Pro•con•sul



Pronunciation: (prō-kon'sul), [key]
—n.
an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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