Assertion: mistletoe | /r/HasProperty | green
Facets:
value: in the winter
type: TEMPORAL
value: during drought
type: TEMPORAL
value: during cold weather
type: TEMPORAL
value: throughout the year
type: TEMPORAL
value: with fresh leaves
type: OTHER
value: miraculously
type: DEGREE
value: in spite
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: And while the host trees lose their leaves each fall, the mistletoe stays bright and green.
text: For, in spite of not being rooted in the soil, mistletoe remained green throughout the winter, while the trees upon which it grew and upon which it fed did not (the European mistletoe often grows on apple trees; more rarely on oaks).
text: Mistletoe stays green in the winter when its host tree goes dormant, so if your elm looks like an evergreen tree this winter, you know you have a problem
text: Mistletoe seems to miraculously stay green all winter, and this is "the fundamental basis of all mid-winter traditions relating to mistletoe,” says Jonathan Briggs, a mistletoe expert and consultant.
text: Mistletoe stays green in the winter when its host tree goes dormant.
text: As in the woods in the cold winter the mistletoe—which puts out seed foreign to its tree—stays green with fresh leaves and twines its yellow fruit about the boles; so the leafy gold seemed upon the shady oak, so this gold rustled in the gentle breeze.
text: Since mistletoe remains green throughout the year, many ancient peoples have ascribed these plants with magical healing powers and with fertility, and some cultures viewed it as an aphrodisiac due to the suggestive arrangement of its berries.
text: During the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era, mistletoe was regarded with great respect for its persistence and stubbornness that allows it to remain green during drought and cold weather.