Fruits and Vegetables

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root (plural) (5)
  2. 5. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (10)
  3. 7. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  4. 8. A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root (6)
  5. 9. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  6. 12. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  7. 14. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  8. 15. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone (6)

Down

  1. 1. An African melon (10)
  2. 2. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  3. 4. Citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp (10)
  4. 5. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  5. 6. Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing ___ plants (9)
  6. 10. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  7. 11. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  8. 13. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)