Fruit and vegetable

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)
  2. 4. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  3. 5. An African melon (10)
  4. 7. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit (4)
  5. 8. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  6. 9. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  7. 12. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  8. 13. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  9. 14. A small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
  2. 3. Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers (7)
  3. 4. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (10)
  4. 6. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  5. 9. Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh (5)
  6. 10. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  7. 11. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)