wryneck

wryneck

English

Etymology

From wry +‎ neck.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪnɛk/

Noun

wryneck (plural wrynecks)

1. Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World that can turn their heads almost 180 degrees.
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 (J. torquilla)
• red-throated wryneck (J. ruficollis)

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

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

torticollis — see torticollis