Definition of "worm-eating" [worm-eating]

• Habitually eating worms; feeding or subsisting upon worms; vermivorous; in ornithology, noting a number of American warblers of the genera Helmintherus and Helminthophaga (formerly Vermivora), and specifying the worm-eater, Helmintherus vermivorus, a common species of the eastern United States.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Though many bird species hunt, kill, and eat other animals—from the shrike, a songbird also known as the butcherbird, who kills and then uses thorns to skewer other birds to store them prominently for a later meal and attract a mate, to the worm-eating robin—birds of prey are exclusively predatory."
• "A few specimens of a worm-eating eyeless white "ghost" slug normally found in central Asia have turned up in the UK."
• "When the worm-eating warbler arrives each sunset to sleep on the inside ledge of my front porch canopy, he always sings for about 10 seconds."