crab-eatern.
1. An occasional book-name for a small species of heron, Ardetta minuta, the Little Bittern.
2. A scombroid fish, Elacate canada, found on the North American shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > elacate or snook
kingfish1653
snook1697
crab-eater1842
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iv. 114 The Crab-eater..was captured in a seine in the harbor of Boston, and placed in a car with other fish.
3. A crab-eating seal, Lobodon carcinophagus (crab n.1 Compounds 2).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > miscellaneous types of
great seal1771
monk seal1839
crab-eater1938
1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 525 The two most abundant species of antarctic seal are the crabeater and the Weddell.
1959 New Biol. 29 113 Rough estimates of seal populations within the Falkland Islands Dependencies have been made by R. M. Laws. He suggests..1,000,000 crabeaters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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