Fruit Parts/Type
Across
- 1. a fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g., a plum, cherry, almond, or olive.
- 3. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.
- 5. a small roundish juicy fruit without a stone.
- 7. open the peppers and remove the seeds"
- 8. a fruit consisting of a fleshy enlarged receptacle and a tough central core containing the seeds, e.g., an apple or pear.
- 10. the part of a seed which develops into a plant, consisting (in the mature embryo of a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two cotyledons.
- 11. the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.
Down
- 2. the innermost layer of the pericarp which surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- 4. the middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit, between the endocarp and the exocarp.
- 6. the protective outer coat of a seed.
- 9. the outer layer of the pericarp of a fruit.