Plant crossword
Across
- 3. Process of transfer of pollen grains
- 5. A weed with yellow flowers, belonging to the daisy family
- 6. Flower belonging to the Iris family, also called the ‘Sword Lily’
- 10. The main root of a plant that tapers and grows vertically downward from which other roots sprout laterally
- 11. Food group whose plants return nitrogen to the soil
- 13. It contains the female reproductive cells
- 14. Period of dryness that seeds go through after seed dispersal and before germination
- 16. Seeds having two embryonic leaves or cotyledons
- 19. Soft tissue of a plant that takes part in photosynthesis
- 21. Tall plant belonging to the Lily family cultivated for its shoots
- 25. Male reproductive parts of a plant
- 27. Underground stem used extensively as a spice and in Asian medicine
Down
- 1. One of the agents for dispersal of seeds
- 2. Specific arrangement of flowers and special structures on a stem
- 4. The onion plant belongs to this group
- 7. The aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge
- 8. Poisonous woody vine
- 9. Part of the plant that is above the ground and includes stem, leaves, flowers and buds
- 12. Process by which seeds sprout and produce new plants
- 15. Parts of a cell
- 17. Plants having thick fleshy leaves or stems for storing water
- 18. The perennial plants are smaller than trees and have low, hard and woody stems
- 20. BAMBOOS Perennial evergreens and the largest members of the grass family
- 22. Food conducting tissue in plants
- 23. This contains the seeds of a plant
- 24. Food storage tissue in the seeds of flowering plants
- 26. Plants with their ovules enclosed in an ovary