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as⋅sur⋅gent

  [uh-sur-juhnt]
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–adjective Botany.
curving upward, as leaves; ascendant.
Origin:
1570–80; < L assurgent- (s. of assurgēns rising up, prp. of assurgere). See as-, surgent

Related forms:
as⋅sur⋅gen⋅cy, noun
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as·sur·gent   (ə-sûr'jənt)   
adj.  

  1. Rising or tending to rise.

  2. Botany Slanting or curving upward; ascending.


[Latin assurgēns, assurgent-, present participle of assurgere, to rise up to : ad-, ad- + surgere, to rise; see surge.]
as·sur'gen·cy n.
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