Oh Say Can You Seed
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Use the clues to fill in the crossword.
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Across
- 3. A small hard fruit (4)
- 4. The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant (6)
- 6. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
- 10. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (4)
- 11. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (6)
- 13. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down (4)
- 14. A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (4)
Down
- 1. Embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants (9)
- 2. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
- 5. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (4)
- 7. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
- 8. A minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium (6)
- 9. The rays of the sun (8)
- 11. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
- 12. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant (5)