generic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
generic /dʒɪˈnɛrɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 referring to a class or group; not specific.

• 2 (of goods, especially medicinal drugs) having no brand name.

• 3 Biology relating to a genus.

– derivatives
generically adverb.

– origin C17: from Fr. générique, from L. genus, gener- ‘stock, race’.