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Definition of winter crookneck

winter crookneck
Crookneck Crook"neck`, 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. [U. S.]

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- Hemisphere. C. moschata, represented by such varieties as Cushaw and Winter Crookneck Squashes, and ****anese Pie and Large Cheese Pumpkins, is a long-vining...
- Crookneck squash, also known as yellow squash, is a cultivar of Cucurbita pepo, the species that also includes some pumpkins and most other summer squashes...
- that of winter squashes. Summer squashes include the C. pepo varieties: Crookneck squash Gem squash Kamokamo Pattypan squash Straightneck squash Zucchini...
- species (Cucurbita pepo) as all summer squashes (including zucchini and crookneck squash). Indigenous to North and Central America, the squash was introduced...
- yellow flowers. Within C. pepo, the pumpkins, scallops, and possibly crooknecks are ancient and were domesticated separately. The domesticated species...
- summer squash varieties pattypan squash, zucchini, and yellow crookneck squash, as well as winter squash varieties including acorn squash, spaghetti squash...
- zucchetta rampicante, zucchino rampicante, climbing zucchini, climbing crookneck, trombolino d'albenga, trombetta and serpentine squash. Aehobak "Zucchetta"...
- America. Within C. pepo, the pumpkins, the scallops, and possibly the crooknecks are ancient and were domesticated at different times and places. The domesticated...
- (555 m) Mount Coochin, (235 m) Mount Cooee, (177 m) Mount Coonowrin or Crookneck, (377 m) Mount Elimbah, (129 m) Mount Miketeebumulgrai, (202 m) Mount...
- been found in the region dated to circa 1300-1500 BCE. C. pepo cultivars crookneck, acorn, and scallop squash appeared later. Other plants of the EAC include...