Vegetable

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems (6)
  2. 5. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  3. 8. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  4. 12. Type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning (7)
  5. 13. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  6. 14. An aromatic herb whose leaves are used to flavor food. (4)
  7. 15. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  8. 16. Small ovoid fruit of the European ___ tree (5)

Down

  1. 1. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  2. 2. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  3. 3. Aromatic Eurasian perennial (7)
  4. 6. Aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food (7)
  5. 7. Common name for an edible agaric (8)
  6. 9. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  7. 10. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  8. 11. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)