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(rare) Of or pertaining to the Jynx genus; pertaining to or characteristic of the wryneck.
Formed as the Latin iynx (“wryneck”) + the English -ine (“of or pertaining to”, “like”), as if after the Latin *jyngīnus. Compare jynx.
From Wiktionary