winter crookneck

1. 1.

   any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks

   Synonymswinter crookneck squashCucurbita moschata

   Broaderwinter squash

   Partswinter crookneck squash

Questions about winter crookneck

What does winter crookneck mean?

winter crookneck means "any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks".

What is another word for winter crookneck?

Close synonyms include winter crookneck squash, Cucurbita moschata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is winter crookneck a common word?

winter crookneck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.