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Definition of Crookneck
1. Noun. Yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin.
Definition of Crookneck
1. n. 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. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth and often striped.
Definition of Crookneck
1. Noun. Any of several yellow varieties of squash having a curved neck ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crookneck
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookneck
Literary usage of Crookneck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Year ...: A Witness of by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1890)
"SQUASH—(Some of these varieties are also catalogued with Pumpkins}— Acorn, or
Chilian. American Turban. Arlington crookneck (Arlington Summer crookneck) ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1856)
"... for crookneck squash; WJ Underwood, for Champion of England peas; J. Gordon,
for squashes ; JB Moore, for melons; A. Hall, for Club gourds; W. Rawson, ..."
3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1863)
"... the Summer crookneck. and scolloped squashes, the egg squash, orange squash
... may bo grown with the Hubbard, Marrow, or crookneck with equal security. ..."
4. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization by C. Raveret-Wattel (1904)
"From the Field Pumpkin crossed by the Japanese crookneck fruits, eighty-eight
... The details of these progeny (of Field Pumpkin by Japanese crookneck) are ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"There need be no fear, therefore, of mixing between the crookneck or Scallop
squashes on the one side and the varieties of Hubbard or Marrow types on the ..."
6. Memoirs by Horticultural Society of New York (1904)
"From the Field Pumpkin crossed by the Japanese crookneck fruits, eighty-eight
... The details of these progeny (of Field Pumpkin by Japanese crookneck) are ..."
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