| 单词 | wryneck |
| 释义 | wryneck (once / 109439 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY wryneck: wrynecks USAGE EXAMPLESHe added that on a previous bird watching trip he had seen a migratory wryneck hit by a train. BBC(Jun 27, 2013) Snake′-bird, a darter: the wryneck; Snake′-eel, a long Mediterranean eel, its tail without a tail-fin.—adj. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012) The sound is unlike any other, but that is nothing, since the same can be said of the wryneck and cuckoo and grasshopper warbler. Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), Birds and Man(2011) 1 n an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted 2Syn|Hyper torticollis abnormalcy, abnormality an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies n Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck Hyper pecker, peckerwood, woodpecker bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects |
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