generic

Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.

Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.

[…] the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual.

Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.

Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.

The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.

Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.

Holonym: familial

Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific

Relating to gender.

A product sold under a generic name.

A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.

A term that specifies neither male nor female.

[…]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…]

The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.

Where the generic of an English-language place name has been translated into French, it is essential to restore it to its original English form when translating the French document into English.