noun. A variety of summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) having a narrow curved neck and a yellow rind.

Having a crooked neck: applied to several varieties of squash having a long recurved neck.

noun. 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 (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.

noun. Any of several yellow varieties of squash having a curved neck

noun. yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin

"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."

yellow squash  

summer crookneck  winter crookneck  

crookneck squash