Definitions for Yerkes

Yerkes Yer·kes

Spelling: [yur-keez]
IPA: /ˈyɜr kiz/

Yerkes is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Yerkes (eekrsy).

Definitions for Yerkes

noun

  1. Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
  2. Robert Mearns [murnz] /mɜrnz/ (Show IPA), 1876–1956, U.S. psychologist and psychobiologist: pioneered in studies of the great apes.

Examples for Yerkes

But the conversation was interrupted by a reproachful appeal from Yerkes.

Thus Professor Yerkes studied a sluggish turtle of retiring disposition, taking advantage of its strong desire to efface itself.

Yerkes, with a smile, and a wink to the bystanders, retired triumphant on his prey.

We told you about the great Yerkes telescope some little while ago.

"All to speak of, my lady," said Yerkes, nimbly retreating to his den.

When Yerkes was travelling he spoke in a representative capacity.

Mr. Yerkes, an American millionaire, generously undertook to provide the cost of this observatory.

This should be a magnificent object with a very large telescope, like the Lick or Yerkes.

Mr. Yerkes followed and under his regime a high school with a three year course was established.

The author is continuing his researches at the Yerkes Observatory, having quitted the Lick establishment in 1892.

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