yerkes
IPA: jˈɝkiz
Root Word: Yerkes
noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Examples of "yerkes" in Sentences
- That's the last of the Yerkes tubes done.
- On the western rim of the mare is the palimpsest Yerkes.
- To the west is the almost completely flooded crater Yerkes.
- At Yerkes, he developed a program for HIV vaccine research.
- There he was able to use the telescope at Yerkes Observatory.
- He also served as a summer volunteer at the Yerkes Observatory.
- In 1945 he was forced into retirement at Yerkes at the age of 65.
- A low ridge runs from the north rim to Yerkes E in the north northwest.
- Yerkes had a long and storied fascination with the study of chimpanzees.
- He was the research assistant at the Yerkes Observatory for the summer of 1919.