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Wryneck Moderate

Wryneck has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck

3

Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
abnormality woodpecker
Rhyming Words
eck neck meck weck heck reck feck peck teck deck geck veck seck keck beck steck freck kneck breck sneck
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