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·surgen·cy n. |
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