wryneck
English Thesaurus
1. Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | pecker, peckerwood, woodpecker, |
definition | : | bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | genus jynx, jynx, |
definition | : | wrynecks (noun.animal) |
2. an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted (noun.state)
hypernym | : | abnormalcy, abnormality, |
definition | : | an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies (noun.state) |
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