generic

1. (of a product or drug) not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.Examples: "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."

2. (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.Examples: "Holonym: familial"; "Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific"; "There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp."

3. (grammar, nonstandard) specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.Examples: "Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic."; "This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women."nonstandard

4. (computing, of procedures) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.

5. (geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.