crab|eat|er

crab|eat|er
crab|eat|er «KRAB EE tuhr», noun, or crabeater seal,
any one of a group of very common seals of West Antarctica, that live among the ice packs and feed on shrimplike crustaceans of the region. They are about 8 feet long.

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