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Wryneck

//ˈɹaɪnɛk// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
  2. 2
    Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck wordnet
  3. 3
    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. dated
  4. 4
    an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted wordnet

Etymology

From wry + neck.

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