noun
definition
A product sold under a generic name.
definition
A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties.
definition
(grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
adjective
definition
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
example
"Shrimp" is the generic name for a number of species of sea creature.
definition
Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
definition
(of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
definition
Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
definition
Relating to gender.
definition
(grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
definition
(Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
definition
(of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
Examples of generic in a Sentence
In Persian Yauna was the generic term for Greeks.'
The generic term is derived from the Arabic Ouaran,.
Individual, specific and generic variations are frequent.
The larger forms designated by special generic terms include the following.
He would not tolerate any of the " barbarous " generic terms adopted by other writers, though some had been in use for many years.
The plural "humanities" is a generic term for the classics.
You, personally, are pretty happy with the generic knockoff, which saves you a dollar and tastes the same to you.
The covering paper discussed generic aspects of toxicology testing to tobacco products.
So long as the characters of new fossils are only of specific and generic value, it is mostly possible to assign the birds to their proper place, but when these characters indicate new families or orders, for instance Hesperornithes, Ichthyornithes, Palaelodi, their owners are put outside the more tersely constructed classifications applicable to modern birds.
The generic name of Trypanosoma was conferred by Gruby in 1843 upon the wellknown parasite of frogs.
The statute by which this change was initiated was the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845; and the policy has been continued by a series of later statutes which, together with the act of 1845, are now grouped under the generic title of the Lands Clauses Acts.
The generic characters are based upon definite modifications of form which affect the entire facies of the animals, while the specific diagnoses depend upon minor characters, such as the number of myotomes or muscle-segments.
Linseed is subject to extensive and detrimental adulterations, resulting not only from careless harvesting and cleaning, whereby seeds of the flax dodder, and other weeds and grasses are mixed with it, but also from the direct admixture of cheaper and inferior oil-seeds, such as wild rape, mustard, sesame, poppy, &c., the latter adulterations being known in trade under the generic name of " buffum."
So absolutely is the " rare and priceless wisdom " for which we strive identical with virtue itself that the three main divisions of philosophy current at the time and accepted by Zeno - logic, physics and ethics - are defined as the most generic or comprehensive virtues.
Among plants from Lower Triassic strata there are a few which form connecting links with the older Permo-Carboniferous flora; of these we have a species, described by Blanckenhon as Sigillaria oculina, which may be correctly referred to that genus, although an inspection of a plaster-cast of the type-specimen in the Berlin Bergakademie left some doubt as to the sufficiency of the evidence for adopting the generic name Sigillaria.
Start either by selecting the category of interest or using the generic search option.
Every car we do is CUSTOM mapped, we do not believe in using generic off the shelf maps as some tuning companies do.
The training modules include generic Teaching and Learning strategies such as Starters, Plenaries and Assessment for Learning.
It 's uninspiringly generic, but delivered with such cumbersome and charmless aggression that it soon becomes irksome, even risible in places.
The last one in the list (sans-serif) is usually a generic font description which will use the computer 's default sans-serif font.
We extend the semiclassical theory of scarring of quantum eigenfunctions by classical periodic orbits to include situations where these orbits undergo generic bifurcations.
The generic syntax for URLs provides a framework for new schemes to be established using protocols other than those defined in this document.
We have found generic memory to be unreliable, even in real PC workstations.
Stay clear of generic or off-brand toys; although, the Mattel lead toy issues prove that even name brand toys can pose a danger.
Why not purchase a gift certificate or an outfit in a generic color, such as yellow, green, lavender, or white?
Cribs can vary widely from manufacturer to manufacturer, which means that most parts are not generic and may not fit your crib.
To get an MP3 player to work on your Mac, it will have to recognize the device as a generic hard drive connected via USB.
Depending on the area, you may be able to find a shop dedicated to buying Chinese food, or there may be a more generic Asian grocer also selling Japanese, Thai, and Indian ingredients.
Your relationship with the person you are buying a gift for- more personal gifts can be a great thing for friends and family, while for co-workers you may want to choose items that are a bit more generic and that anyone will appreciate.
By answering these questions, you'll be able to choose an appropriate and meaningful gift that relates directly to the individual recipient, rather than just a generic farming-themed gift that may not be suitable for their preferences.
You can usually find generic washers for showerheads pretty easily.
It's best to take on very generic roles instead of pretending to be actual people you know.
Many school dress codes consist of generic separates that can be purchased at any store.
But the Stoics were not slow to exalt the part of reason, which seizes upon the generic qualities, the essential nature of things.
The limbs are very strong, and the feet short and broad, resembling externally those of an elephant or tortois Glyptodonts constitute a family, the Glyptodontidae, whose position is next to the armadillos (Dasypodidae); the group being represented by a number of generic types.
The abundance of petrified coniferous wood in rocks of various ages has led many botanists to investigate the structure of modern genera with a view to determining how far anatomical characters may be used as evidence of generic distinctions.
The census officers employ it as a convenient generic to include 42 millions of the population of Bengal, comprising elements of transparently distinct ethnical origin, and separated from each other by their language, customs and religious rites.
Liberty or freedom is a generic term which means a cause or being endowed with self-activity.
For crimes against property the usual penalty, as in breach of contract, was generic restitution, the quantity, subject to modifying circumstances, being twice the amount taken or destroyed.
Both words have passed into modern ornithology, the latter as the generic name of the STILT; and some writers have blended the two in the strange and impossible compound Haemantopus.
It appears with the generic meaning of "serpent" in the older forms of many Teutonic languages, cf.
Perhaps, however, the most interesting are the remains of certain oxen from the Lower Pliocene of Europe and India, which have been described under the sub-generic (or generic) title of Leptobos, and are characterized by the absence of horns in the females.
It is true, as was pointed out by Sedgwick, that the species from the same part of the world resemble one another more closely than they do species from other regions, but recent researches have shown that the line between them cannot be so sharply drawn as was at first supposed, and it is certainly not desirable in the present state of our knowledge to divide them into generic or subgeneric groups, as has been done by some zoologists.
Linnaeus's copy of the book evinces the great assiduity with which he studied it; he laboured throughout to remedy the defect of the want of synonyms, sub-joined his own generic names to nearly every species, and particularly indicated the two remarkable passages where the germination of plants and their sexual distinctions are explained.
It is confusing, but not uninstructive, to find that within the Balanid group such generic titles as Stephanolepas and Platylepas have been coined.
The latter is threatened with a new generic name (Chun, Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres, 1900, p. 502).
He insists on the value of the upper lip or labrum for generic distinction, and as an aid in affiliating larval forms of different stages to their several species.
Owing to this, it has become the common practice of palaeobotanists to give distinct generic names to detached parts of plants which may even have belonged to one and the same species.
In Asterophyllites., the generic distinction of which from Annularia is not always clear, the narrow linear leaves are in crowded whorls, and the ultimate branches distichously arranged; in the Calamocladus of Grand' Eury - characteristic of the Upper Coal Measures - the whorls are more remote, and the twigs polystichous in arrangement.
In Archaeocalamites, which certainly deserves generic rank, the branches may occur on every node, but only in certain parts of the stem; the ribs of successive internodes do not alternate, but are continuous, indicating that the leaves were superposed.