U.S. [CROOK sb. C.] A name given to varieties of squash (Cucurbita maxima) having the neck or narrow basal part recurved.
1848. Lowell, Biglow P., Poems 1890, II. 10. Agin’ the chimbly crooknecks hung.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Wealth (1861), 66. The cantelopes, crook-necks, and cucumbers.
