wryneck

English

Eurasian wryneck twisting its neck

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 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 (Jynx ruficollis)

Translations

either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis

• Asturian: ayayái (ast), formigueru (ast), paxarón del agua (ast)
• Bulgarian: въртошийка f (vǎrtošijka)
• Catalan: colltort (ca) m
• Czech: krutihlav
• Dutch: draaihals (nl) m
• Finnish: käenpiika (fi)
• French: torcol (fr)
• German: Wendehals (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἴυγξ f (íunx)

• Hungarian: nyaktekercs (hu)
• Italian: torcicollo (it)
• Latin: iynx f
• Latvian: tītiņš m
• Lithuanian: gražiagalvė f
• Norman: turbé m (Guernsey), ouaîsé â blié m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: giegabiigá
• Ottoman Turkish: بویون بوران (boyun buran)
• Portuguese: torcicolo (pt) m
• Romanian: capîntortură (ro) f
• Russian: вертише́йка (ru) f (vertišéjka)
• Serbo-Croatian: krivovrat, krivošija
• Spanish: torcecuello m
• Swedish: göktyta (sv) c
• Turkish: boyunburan (tr) sg

torticollis — see torticollis