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Wryneck   Listen
Wryneck

noun
1.
An unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted.  Synonym: torticollis.
2.
Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck.





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... cottage gave lunch and rest to the party, and the talk was either of ferrets, hares, and rabbits, or of the two rudely carpentered cases which contained well-set-up specimens of teal, cuckoo, wryneck, abnormally marked swallow, pied rat, landrail, and polecat, each being a chapter in the life history of ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior


Words linked to "Wryneck" :   genus Jynx, abnormality, pecker, abnormalcy, Jynx, peckerwood, torticollis, woodpecker


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