Crossword-Solution: WRYNECK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wryneck | n. | 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. |
| Wryneck | n. | Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. 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. |
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| Bird related to woodpecker | 1 answer |
| loxia | 2 answers |
| HEAD, abnormal position of the | 2 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Sentences with WRYNECK (5)
WRYNECK (_Yunx torquilla_), or Cuckoo’s mate, squeaks all round the woods with his head on one side just as the cuckoo comes.
But where, during the days when the vociferous cuckoo, with hoarse chuckle and dissyllabic call and wild bubbling cry was so much with us--where, in this period of many pleasant noises was the cuckoo's mate, or maid, or messenger, the quaint and beautiful wryneck? There are few British birds, perhaps not one--not even the crafty black and white magpie, or mysterious moth-like goatsucker, or tropical kingfisher--more interesting to watch.
Doubtless that will come later on when it will be in the same category with the golden oriole, hoopoe, furze-wren, and other species that are regarded as always worth killing; that is to say, it will come--the scramble for the wryneck's carcass--if nothing is done in the meantime to restrain the enthusiasm of those who value a bird only when the spirit of life that gave it flight and grace and beauty has been crushed out of it--when it is no longer a bird.
All at once he remembered that he knew, or had known formerly, the wryneck very well, but he had never learnt its name.
The wryneck and the woodpecker may be mentioned; and a still better instance is afforded by the small, gem-like kingfisher--the only British bird which can properly be described as gem-like.