Across
- 2. a leafy garden plant with a short stem and a dense globular head of usually green leaves that is used as a vegetable
- 5. an erect South American herb of the nightshade family widely cultivated for its edible starchy tuber
- 7. the pungent usually crisp root of a widely cultivated Eurasian plant of the mustard family usually eaten raw
- 9. a widely cultivated Asian herb of the lily family with pungent edible bulbs
Down
- 1. a biennial herb with a usually orange spindle-shaped edible root
- 3. also known as brinjal
- 4. a garden plant related to the cabbage
- 6. a hot pepper of any of a group of cultivars noted for their pungency
- 8. a thickened pungent aromatic rhizome that is used as a spice and sometimes medicinally