Definition of "crookneck" []

• Any of several edible varieties of summer squash having a narrow crooked or curved neck and a yellow rind and flesh. (noun)

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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."
• "Various and sundry, including herbs, peppers, cucumber and yellow crookneck squash:"
• "The crookneck squash plants that were seeded directly into the crap soil in the yard are doing very well indeed."