Les Legumes

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Across
  1. 4. any of various fruits of plants of the gourd family that are used especially as vegetables
  2. 7. of the crucifer family, with thick leaves formed into a round, compact head on a short, thick stalk
  3. 10. selected especially for the flavor o sweetness of their pods
  4. 12. an enlarged complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus... one that is edible
  5. 15. a tall American cereal grass plant widely grown for its large ears of starchy grain which come in many varieties
  6. 16. a starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas.
  7. 17. a common garden vegetable related to the daisies that has crisp juicy leaves used especially in salads.
Down
  1. 1. a garden plant closely related to the cabbage and grown for its compact edible head of usually white undeveloped flowers.
  2. 2. having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves.
  3. 3. if you cut it wrong it'll make you cry
  4. 5. orange pointed veggie
  5. 6. the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga. the plant itself
  6. 8. a vegetable that has wide, dark green leaves that are eaten cooked or raw
  7. 9. the plant, closely related to the onion, that produces this bulb.
  8. 11. used whole, crushed, or ground as a condiment.
  9. 13. a smooth cylinder-shaped usually dark green summer squash
  10. 14. related to the cabbage and cauliflower that is cultivated for its edible small roundish green buds which are borne on its stem and resemble miniature cabbages.
  11. 15. one with a thick central stem and a compact head of dense usually green florets that is classified with the cauliflower.
  12. 16. a small, round, green seed that is eaten as a vegetable