crabeater seal

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   silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans

   Synonymscrab-eating seal

   Broaderseal

Questions about crabeater seal

What does crabeater seal mean?

crabeater seal means "silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans".

What is another word for crabeater seal?

Close synonyms include crab-eating 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 crabeater seal a common word?

crabeater 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.