Crossword Puzzle about Vegetables

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  1. 3. a vegetable grown for its edible leaves or flowers
  2. 6. bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
  3. 7. a melon vine of the genus Cucumis
  4. 8. an edible tuber native to South America
  5. 9. perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
  6. 11. a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
  7. 15. edible leaves of an aromatic herb, used fresh or dried
  8. 16. bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized
  9. 18. tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
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  1. 1. plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
  2. 2. any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
  3. 4. plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds
  4. 5. tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
  5. 6. aromatic Eurasian perennial
  6. 10. a plant having a large, fleshy, edible white or yellow root
  7. 12. climber having dark red berries when fully ripe
  8. 13. a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
  9. 14. plant with thick aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
  10. 15. a leguminous plant grown for its edible seeds and pods
  11. 17. widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked