/proh kon"seuhl/ , n.
an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17-20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
[ 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 ]