Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.

plural of wryneck

A small migratory bird in the woodpeckers family, Jynx torquilla.

plural of Eurasian wryneck