winter crookneck squash

Questions about winter crookneck squash

What does winter crookneck squash mean?

winter crookneck squash means "any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for winter crookneck squash?

Close synonyms include winter crookneck, 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 squash a common word?

winter crookneck squash 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.