crossword puzzle about fruits
Across
- 3. East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
- 5. a treelike herb bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
- 7. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
- 8. any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
- 10. yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
- 12. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
- 14. large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- 16. any citrus tree bearing oranges
- 17. tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- 19. small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
Down
- 1. bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
- 2. tree of southeast Asia having fruit with a hard spiny rind
- 4. large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp
- 6. a tree widely cultivated for its firm rounded edible fruits
- 9. a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin
- 11. large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
- 13. any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
- 15. any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- 18. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit