The Collaborative International Dictionary
generic name \ge*ner"ic name`\, n. The name for a medication, as used in the pharmacopoeia; it cannot be a trademark. The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug, but must be approved by a national or international naming authority.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany zoology English) The scientific name of a genus, conforming to the ''ICBN'' or ''ICZN''. 2 (context pharmacology pharmacy English) The name given to a drug that is used to identify it irrespective of trademark etc.
Wikipedia
Generic name may refer to:
- Generic name (biology), the name of a biological genus
- Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown
Usage examples of "generic name".
It is more likely to be a corruption of the Latin name Ajuga, the generic name which Linnaeus was the first to apply to this plant from a belief that this or some closely-allied species was the one referred to by Pliny and other writers by a very similar name, a name probably corrupted from Abija, in turn derived from the Latin word abigo, to drive away, because the plant was thought to drive away various forms of disease.
Panax, the generic name, is derived from the Greek Panakos (a panacea), in reference to the miraculous virtue ascribed to it by the Chinese, who consider it a sovereign remedy in almost all diseases.
It has been suggested that the generic name of the Mulberry, Morus, has been derived from the Latin word mora (delay), from this tardy expansion of the buds, and as the wisest of its fellows, the tree was dedicated by the Ancients to Minerva.
According to some old writers, the generic name is derived from the Latin bellus (pretty or charming), though others say its name is from a dryad named Belidis.
In France, it is termed the grenouillette, a name similar in meaning to its Latin generic name Ranunculus, a reference to the moist meadows in which it usually grows.
In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers.
He was not an Asian, which perhaps explained the unimaginative generic name of his business.
Known to the Celts as Cernunnos, the generic name for 'horned one'.
He was not Asian, which perhaps explained the unimaginative generic name of the business.
To add to the confusion, tequila is classified as a Mexican brandy, and the generic name for Mexican brandies is.
The generic name, Pulicaria, refers to this property, the Latin name for the flea being Pulex.
They give the trade and generic name of a list of pharmaceuticals available in the States on prescription only, but available over the counter in Mexico.
She was taking a form of digitalis whose generic name is digitoxinthe most poisonous of the digitalis group.