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This vegetables word search hides words like carrot, potato, tomato to find. Play it free online or print the PDF with the answer key, a handy vegetables vocabulary activity.

10 words · 11×11 grid · Medium · Answer key included · Free printable PDF

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Tap the first and last letter of a word — or use arrow keys and Enter. Dragging works too.

  • CUCUMBER
  • BROCCOLI
  • ZUCCHINI
  • EGGPLANT
  • CABBAGE
  • SPINACH
  • PUMPKIN
  • CARROT
  • POTATO
  • TOMATO
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Did you know?

carrot
Carrots were once purple, white, or yellow; Dutch growers bred the sweet orange kind we know around the late 1500s.
potato
In 1995 the potato became the first vegetable grown in space, on a NASA experiment aboard the shuttle Columbia.
tomato
The tomato is botanically a fruit, but in 1893 the US Supreme Court ruled it a vegetable for tax purposes.
cabbage
Sailors once ate cabbage fermented as sauerkraut on long voyages; its vitamin C helped keep deadly scurvy away.
spinach
A misplaced decimal once made spinach look ten times richer in iron, fueling the Popeye myth for decades.
pumpkin
Pumpkins are over 90 percent water, yet the heaviest one ever grown topped 2,700 pounds, about as much as a small car.
cucumber
A chilled cucumber really can be cooler inside than the air around it, which is where cool as a cucumber comes from.
broccoli
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale are all the same wild plant, reshaped by farmers over thousands of years.
zucchini
A zucchini is really an immature summer squash, harvested young; left on the vine it swells into a giant marrow.
eggplant
Called aubergine in Britain, the eggplant belongs to the nightshade family, related to tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers.
asparagus
Asparagus spears can grow several inches in a single day, and eating them makes some people's urine smell oddly sharp.
artichoke
An artichoke is an unopened flower bud; you eat the fleshy leaf bases and the tender heart before it blooms.
cauliflower
The tight white head of a cauliflower is actually a dense cluster of undeveloped flower buds packed closely together.
lettuce
Wild lettuce oozes a milky sap once used as a mild sleep aid; its Latin name comes from the word for milk.
parsnip
A parsnip looks like a pale carrot and grows sweeter after a frost, when its stored starch turns to sugar.

Trivia

  1. Botanically, what part of the plant is a carrot, a beet, or a radish?

    The root.

  2. Which leafy green vegetable shares its name and fame with the cartoon sailor Popeye?

    Spinach.

  3. In 1893 the US Supreme Court ruled that this fruit should legally count as a vegetable. Which one?

    The tomato.

  4. What scale measures how hot a chili pepper is?

    The Scoville scale.

  5. Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale were all bred from one wild species. What family does it belong to?

    The mustard or cabbage family (Brassica).

Trivia · 1 / 5
Botanically, what part of the plant is a carrot, a beet, or a radish?
The root.

In their words

The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

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This vegetables word search is a free printable puzzle with 10 hidden words in an 11×11 grid. Find words like CUCUMBER, BROCCOLI, ZUCCHINI hidden across, down, and diagonally. You can play it right here in your browser — tap the first and last letter of a word — or download it as a printable PDF with the full answer key on page two. It's free for personal and classroom use, so teachers can print copies for a whole class with no sign-up and no account. Word searches like this one are a proven way to build vocabulary, spelling, and word-shape recognition, which is why they're a favourite with ESL learners, elementary classrooms, and anyone who likes a quiet puzzle with their coffee.

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Sources: La Tomatina origins (History.com) · Potato first vegetable grown in space (Wisconsin/NASA) · Why are carrots orange? (Live Science) · Brassica oleracea, one species (Live Science)

Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.