GENER'IC
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Pertaining to a genus or kind; comprehending the genus, as distinct from species, or from another genus. A generic description is a description of a genus; a generic difference is a difference in genus; a generic name is the denomination which comprehends all the species, as of animals, plants or fossils, which have certain essential and peculiar characters in common. Thus Canis is the generic name of animals of the dog kind; Felis, of the cat kind; Cervus, of the deer kind.
1. Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.
2. Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific.
With regard to genus; as an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals generically allied.
With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.
The quality of being generic.
Generality Roget’s Thesaurus §78
N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization, # universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, n or m, all sorts, prevalence, run
V. be general, prevail, be going about, stalk abroad, render general, generalize
Adj. general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, pan-american, anglican, pan-hellenic, pan-germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary
Adv. whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run
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