wryneck

English

Eurasian Wryneck twisting its neck

Etymology

From wry +‎ neck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪnɛk/

Noun

wryneck (plural wrynecks)

1. Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and , of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
2. (medicine, dated) 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; torticollis.

Synonyms

• mackerel bird

Hyponyms

• Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
• red-throated wryneck ()

Translations

either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis

• Czech: krutihlav
• Finnish: käenpiika (fi)
• French: torcol (fr)
• German: Wendehals (de) m
• Hungarian: nyaktekercs (hu)
• Italian: torcicollo (it)
• Latvian: tītiņš m
• Lithuanian: gražiagalvė f
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• Norman: turbé m (Guernsey), ouaîsé â blié m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: giegabiigá
• Portuguese: torcicolo (pt) m
• Romanian: capîntortură (ro) f
• Russian: вертише́йка (ru) f (vertišéjka)
• Serbo-Croatian: krivovrat, krivošija
• Spanish: torcecuello m
• Swedish: göktyta (sv) c

torticollis — see torticollis