Word Meanings - CROOKNECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.]

• SMOOTHCHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• Recurvate
  Recurved.
• YELLOWGOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• Squashiness
  The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.
• Summerhouses
  of Summerhouse
• Wintery
  Wintry.
• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
• Yellowroot
  Any one of several plants with yellow roots.
• Distinguishable
  Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
• Distinguishableness
  The quality of being distinguishable.
• SMOOTHSPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• Recurvation
  The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
• YELLOWSHANKSYELLOWSHINS
  See Yellolegs.
• Smoothed
  of Smooth
• Squashy
  Easily squashed; soft.
• Summerhouse
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.
• Yellow
  Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

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