Word Meanings - TONGUEBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The wryneck.
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- WRYNECK
Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species ; -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's - WRYNECKED
Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.