Fantastic Food!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds (9)
  2. 6. Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins (5)
  3. 9. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  4. 11. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (10)
  5. 12. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (4)
  6. 14. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  7. 16. Climbing vine native to China (4)

Down

  1. 1. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  2. 2. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  3. 4. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  4. 5. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (4)
  5. 7. An African melon (10)
  6. 8. Common name for an edible agaric (8)
  7. 10. Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large ___ tuberous root (11)
  8. 13. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone (6)
  9. 15. Small ovoid fruit of the European ___ tree (5)