Vegetables

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  2. 5. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  3. 6. Whitish edible root (7)
  4. 8. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  5. 11. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  6. 12. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)
  7. 13. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural) (7)
  8. 15. A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root (6)
  9. 16. Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers (7)

Down

  1. 2. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from (plural) (11)
  3. 4. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  4. 7. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  5. 9. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  6. 10. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  7. 14. Medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin (7)