Crossword puzzle clue "maize eaten as a vegetable"

a thistle-like perennial plant with large fleshy scaly head and bracts and edible receptacle

any plant of the Asparagus genus, one species having young shoots eaten as a delicacy

(Nahuatl) a rough-skinned pear-shaped edible fruit of a tropical tree

a vegetable of the onion genus

a tropical plant of the mallow family, with edible pods, aka gumbo