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Botany
a. denoting a type of growth in which the main stem ends in a flower, as in a cymose inflorescence; determinate
b. (esp of flower parts) limited or fixed in number in a given species
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So I conjured up all the diseases I was familiar with and tried to identify those we use the definite article we and came up with "the mumps," and "the measles." I vacillated back and forth with "the chicken pox" before I couldn't definitively decide if it was a "the disease." Surely this couldn't be it.
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While "all" and "some" were mentioned tens of times with different meanings in the Holy Koran, they were not mentioned a single time with the definite article equal to "the" in the English language.
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