wryneck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪnɛk/
Noun[edit]
wryneck (plural wrynecks)
- Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
- (medicine, dated) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles; torticollis.
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Translations[edit]
either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis
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torticollis — see torticollis