"wryneck" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɹaɪnɛk/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Forms: wrynecks [plural]
Etymology: From wry + neck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wry|neck}} wry + neck Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (lifeform): Woodpeckers Translations (either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis): ἴυγξ (íunx) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ayayái (Asturian), formigueru (Asturian), paxarón del agua (Asturian), въртошийка (vǎrtošijka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), colltort [masculine] (Catalan), krutihlav (Czech), draaihals [masculine] (Dutch), käenpiika (Finnish), torcol (French), Wendehals [masculine] (German), nyaktekercs (Hungarian), torcicollo (Italian), iynx [feminine] (Latin), tītiņš [masculine] (Latvian), gražiagalvė [feminine] (Lithuanian), turbé [Guernsey, masculine] (Norman), ouaîsé â blié [Jersey, masculine] (Norman), giegabiigá (Northern Sami), بویون بوران (boyun buran) (Ottoman Turkish), torcicolo [masculine] (Portuguese), capîntortură [feminine] (Romanian), вертише́йка (vertišéjka) [feminine] (Russian), krivovrat (Serbo-Croatian), krivošija (Serbo-Croatian), torcecuello [masculine] (Spanish), göktyta [common-gender] (Swedish), boyunburan [singular] (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-wryneck-en-noun-mqQGccqK Disambiguation of Woodpeckers: 87 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis': 98 2
  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. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-wryneck-en-noun-Ztb0zBJT Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mackerel bird Hyponyms: Eurasian wryneck (taxonomic: Jynx torquilla), red-throated wryneck (taxonomic: Jynx ruficollis)

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      "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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