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- noun Plural form of
crookneck .
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Examples
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So the hubby says we can harvest crooknecks from the garden.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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So the hubby says we can harvest crooknecks from the garden.
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I have crooknecks coming out my ears a sight to see for sure!
herbed summer squash and potato torte | smitten kitchen 2008
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There are scallops or pattypans, flat and scalloped around the edges; crooknecks and straight necks, with constricted stem ends; elongated vegetable marrows, or zucchinis; acorn squash; and distinctive Middle Eastern and Asian types as well.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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There are scallops or pattypans, flat and scalloped around the edges; crooknecks and straight necks, with constricted stem ends; elongated vegetable marrows, or zucchinis; acorn squash; and distinctive Middle Eastern and Asian types as well.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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He was one of the first to grow early squash in this area, the early spring crooknecks.
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If the light green, very tender, Lebanese summer squash are unavailable, use small yellow crooknecks of dark green zucchini.
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If the light green, very tender, Lebanese summer squash are unavailable, use small yellow crooknecks of dark green zucchini.
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The garden is making squash by the bucketload (I just harvested about eight tiny crooknecks, and there are more where those came from.
July 27th, 2009 matociquala 2009
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