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.