Foods Of The Earth

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  2. 5. Common name for an edible agaric (plural) (9)
  3. 8. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  4. 9. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit (plural) (5)
  5. 11. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  6. 12. Large sweet ___ or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus (plural) (12)
  7. 14. Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing ___ plants (plural) (11)
  8. 15. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)

Down

  1. 1. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Long yellow fruit with a peel (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit (11)
  4. 6. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  5. 7. Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable (plural) (9)
  6. 8. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone (plural) (8)
  7. 10. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  8. 13. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)