Assertion: mistletoe's root | /r/CapableOf | make haustorial connections
Facets:
value: to the tree
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: It seems, therefore, that mistletoes evolved from terrestrial root-parasitic progenitors through a sequence in which bird-dispersed seeds were lodged and grew on tree branches (presumably in humid forests), with their roots functioning as epicortical runners and able to make haustorial connections to the tree