Definition of "assurgent" [as•sur•gent]

• Rising or tending to rise. (adjective)
• Botany Slanting or curving upward; ascending. (adjective)

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• "It has a procumbent, assurgent, geniculate stem, which roots at the joints; the leaves are hairy, with spikes shorter than the joints."
• "That weakness which we have seen will start to abate and if we get a break through that dollar index say 75.80 then I think that will be the trip point for me to where I will start to think that assurgent for copper will actually slow."
• "A sea-horse, assurgent Or, 'maned Az. supporting a cross patee Gu."