See wryneck on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"word": "giegabiigá"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "boyun buran",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"word": "بویون بوران"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "krętogłów"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torcicolo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "capîntortură"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vertišéjka",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вертише́йка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"word": "krivovrat"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"word": "krivošija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torcecuello"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "göktyta"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "boyunburan"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"wryneck"
],
"word": "wryneck"
}
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