Definition of Crab-eating seal

1. Noun. Silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans.

Exact synonyms: Crabeater Seal
Generic synonyms: Seal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crab-eating Seal

cpg islands
cps
craal
craaled
craaling
craals
crab-apple
crab-eater
crab-eating dog
crab-eating fox
crab-eating macaque
crab-eating opossum
crab-eating raccoon
crab-eating seal (current term)
crab Louis
crab apple
crab boil
crab boils
crab burger
crab burgers
crab cactus
crab canon
crab canons
crab cocktail
crab hand
crab legs
crab lice

Literary usage of Crab-eating seal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"... them are apparently very numerous they have never figured conspicuously iu the annals of sealing. VI.—Genus LOBODON Gray. 12. CRAB EATING SEAL, Lobodon ..."

2. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the by William Gordon Burn-Murdoch (1894)
"... a creamy white seal with a darker dorsal stripe, the so-called Crab-Eating Seal or White Antarctic Seal ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"... chiefly at the outer edge, and further in towards the stationary pack the crab-eating seal—a distribution alio confirmed on the home voyage. ..."

4. The Voyage of the 'Discovery' by Robert Falcon Scott (1905)
"... the scars that they leave on the seals, more particularly on the Crab-eating seal of the pack-ice, afford abundant testimony to their vicious habits. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"... a creamy white seal with a darker dorsal stripe, the so-called Crab-Eating Seal or White Antarctic Seal ..."

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