Found 1 hit - Term: jynx torguilla, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wryneck \wry"neck\, n. med.
1913 webster
1. 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 of the neck; torticollis.
1913 webster
2. a person suffering from torticollis.
pjc
3. zool. any one of several species of old world birds of
the genus jynx or subfamily jynginae, allied to the
woodpeckers; especially, the common european species
jynx torguilla; -- so called from its habit of turning
the neck around in different directions. called also
cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird,
and writheneck.
1913 webster +pjc
see also:
jynx jynginae jynx torguilla cuckoo's mate snakebird summer bird
tonguebird writheneck
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