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Definition of Crabeater seal
1. Noun. Silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crabeater Seal
Literary usage of Crabeater seal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America on the Ice: Antarctic Policy Issues by Frank G. Klotz (1998)
"... Southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina, Leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx,
Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli, crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus, ..."
2. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill, Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909)
"On December 24, close to the camp, they found the bleached skeleton of a crabeater
seal. It is rather curious that one of these animals should proceed so ..."