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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Picidae — the wrynecks.

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  • If you look at the Pokemon “Rougela” aka Jynx you definitely get some sense of that, and there’s lots of other Japanese pop culture examples, of images of blackness recirculating into postwar culture, often two or three steps removed from a direct referent to Africa.

    Viewing Africa from Asia 2005

  • Bell's dedication landed him a chair in the Jynx as guitarist.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 160 Phil Ramone 2011

  • Huge thanks to this list of major sponsors of the event like MajorSpoilers, Josh Fetner, Jeff Syer, Jynx, the “Mysterious Korean”, Gerry Conway, and more.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Nerdtacular Update… 2009

  • Something to Say, Something to Knit » Blog Archive » No Jynx (or Smoochum, either) Says: at 2: 27 am

    Time to pay up….. 2007

  • September 8, 2009 at 7:03 am ai haz jus seed the mos awsum (an troo, for sum uv us aneewai ) lol (by Jynx)

    Firefox rejects your - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I did finish Jynx, the third novel in Jennifer Estep's Bigtime series, and I'll start working on my review this week.

    Yes, I'm Still Alive Tia Nevitt 2008

  • Jennifer's first two novels, Karma Girl and Hot Mama, have been re-released as mass-market paperbacks and Jynx is set to release on September 2.

    Yes, I'm Still Alive Tia Nevitt 2008

  • Jennifer's first two novels, Karma Girl and Hot Mama, have been re-released as mass-market paperbacks and Jynx is set to release on September 2.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Tia Nevitt 2008

  • I did finish Jynx, the third novel in Jennifer Estep's Bigtime series, and I'll start working on my review this week.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Tia Nevitt 2008

  • This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten several genera of the Linnaean system, and are all of the _ordo_ of _passeres_ save the _Jynx_ and _Cuculus_, which are _picae_, and the _Charadrius_

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

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