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Wryneck

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Noun

1. torticollis, wryneck

an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted

2. wryneck

Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wryneck

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noun
1. 
either of two cryptically coloured Old World woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla or J. ruficollis, which do not drum on trees
2.  another name for torticollis
3. informal
a person who has a twisted neck

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Wryneck

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noun
1. 
a. 
torticollis
b. 
a person afflicted with this
2. 
any of a genus (Jynx) of Old World woodpeckers with long, soft tail feathers and a habit of twisting the neck

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wryneck

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n.
1. Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla of Eurasia and Africa or J. ruficollis of sub-Saharan Africa, having a sharply pointed bill and the ability to twist the neck almost all the way around.
2.
a. See torticollis.
b. A person with torticollis.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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