Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) having a narrow curved neck and a yellow rind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a crooked neck: applied to several varieties of squash having a long recurved neck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The
summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo ) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. Thewinter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata ) and is smooth and often striped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several yellow varieties of
squash having a curved neck
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin
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Examples
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Dolcezza will have crookneck pumpkin gelato ($2 per scoop, $6 per half - pint).
Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7 Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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Karma later decided to see what was what at the neighbor's place and stepped into the bed so she could get a better idea ... that nailed a crookneck squash plant, some of the sprouting bag carrots, and two marigolds in a starter pot.
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Various and sundry, including herbs, peppers, cucumber and yellow crookneck squash:
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Mmmm, sounds very much like one my mom used to make - crookneck squash, Rotel tomatoes, onions, chilies, cheese, and sour cream on top.
Tex-Mex squash casserole | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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I find a crookneck lamp on the bench helps tons ... and it is not only the overloaded round one is looking for, it is the empty round, too.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Here's one of the inverse planters, carrying either long cucumber or yellow crookneck squash, I'm not sure which.
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That said, there are such setbacks as Karma's occasional stepping into the big bed, the healthily growing crookneck squash plant octopusing suddenly (turning over so that it looks like an octopus) twice in a row, resulting in the main stem snapping, and the utter disasters that the inverse planters have been as inverse planters.
"Basil basil basil!" cried Gardenin' Gandalf, and basil there bloody well was! 2009
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The crookneck squash plants that were seeded directly into the crap soil in the yard are doing very well indeed.
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I find a crookneck lamp on the bench helps tons ... and it is not only the overloaded round one is looking for, it is the empty round, too.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Lamb immediately went for the spigot down the fence from the basil, Roma tomatoes and crookneck squash she and her 4-year-old daughter planted in the spring.
Some residents object to water limits in Montgomery, Prince George's counties 2010
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