"crabeater" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From crab + eater.",
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          "name": "Percoid fish",
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      "glosses": [
        "A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum)."
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      "glosses": [
        "A little bittern; a bird of species Ixobrychus minutus."
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          "name": "Herons",
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          "name": "Phocid seals",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:",
          "text": "Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:",
          "text": "Also distinguishing them is that crabeaters often have moderate scaring around the head and chest from fights with conspecifics and deep scaring along the body resulting from close encounters with leopard seals.",
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        }
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        "An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill."
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          "krill",
          "krill"
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  "etymology_text": "From crab + eater.",
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        "A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum)."
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          "ref": "2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:",
          "text": "Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:",
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        "An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill."
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  "word": "crabeater"
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