Fruit and vegetable
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
a
p
Round red or green fruit that grows on trees
2.
m
n
Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
3.
p
e
Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural)
4.
b
a
a
Long yellow fruit with a peel
5.
p
r
Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
6.
o
i
Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
7.
l
e
A small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
8.
p
i
n
p
A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves
9.
c
a
e
Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
10.
o
r
g
Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color
11.
c
r
y
Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone
12.
m
s
h
r
Common name for an edible agaric
13.
s
a
w
b
y
Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible
14.
b
l
a
c
r
Large sweet ___ or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus
16.
m
e
Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
17.
l
t
u
Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
18.
s
p
a
Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
19.
w
a
t
e
o
An African melon
20.
t
o
o
Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
21.
p
e
s
Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural)
22.
k
i
Climbing vine native to China
23.
p
o
a
Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers
24.
g
r
l
Bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized