crab-eating seal

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   silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans

   Synonymscrabeater seal

   Broaderseal

Questions about crab-eating seal

What does crab-eating seal mean?

crab-eating seal means "silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans".

What is another word for crab-eating seal?

Close synonyms include crabeater seal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crab-eating seal a common word?

crab-eating seal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.