Veggies

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  2. 8. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  3. 9. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
  4. 11. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)
  5. 12. Aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food (7)
  6. 13. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  7. 14. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)

Down

  1. 1. A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root (plural) (8)
  2. 2. Common name for an edible agaric (plural) (9)
  3. 3. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)
  4. 4. Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root (6)
  5. 5. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  6. 7. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root (plural) (5)
  7. 10. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible (8)
  8. 12. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)