NOUN
- an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted
- Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck
How To Use wryneck In A Sentence
- Did you dream you were ating your own tripe, acushla, that you tied yourself up that wrynecky fix? — Finnegans Wake
- Some, such as the wryneck, ceased to breed in East Anglia; others, notably the stonechat, all but vanished.
- The avian family Picidae includes the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks.
- On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks, a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.
- On the same trip to Spain we also caught up with two other birds I most desperately wanted to see: the ring ouzel, another thrush with a restricted range, and the wryneck, a strange-looking and behaving woodpecker.
- There are many species of woodpeckers, but only two wrynecks, worldwide, but only three woodpeckers and one wryneck (a rare migrant) in the UK.
- Some, such as the wryneck, ceased to breed in East Anglia; others, notably the stonechat, all but vanished.
- Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable.
- There are two additional subfamilies of the Picidae, Picumninae, which is the sister group of the true woodpeckers, and Jynginae (wrynecks), which is sister to the Picinae-Picumninae clade.
- If not treated, wryneck may lead to permanent facial deformity or unevenness and to restricted head movement.