Citations:generic name
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English citations of generic name
The scientific name of a genus
- 1821, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Elements of the Philosophy of Plants[1]:
- The Generic name should be a substantive and the Trivial name an adjective. Hence adjectives as generic names are objectionable. We allow many at present, because custom has consecrated them, (Scabiasa, Gloriosa, Impatiens, Fontinalis), but to form new names on this principle is not permitted.
- 1832, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany[2]:
- Generic names derived from barbarous languages ought on no account to be admitted.
- 1838, The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science[3]:
- He proposes, nevertheless, to retain the generic name of Huronia; and has called the only species, yet found with traces of the septa, Huronia Portlockii.
The name given to a drug that is used to identify it irrespective of trademark
- 2005, Mary Kamienski, James Edward Keogh, Pharmacology Demystified[4]:
- A drug is given three names. Each is used in a different area of the drug industry. These names are the drug's chemical name, generic name, and brand name.
- 2006, Donald W. Barnes, Pharmacology[5]:
- Newly patented drugs usually have one generic name (e.g., salmeterol) and one or more brand or proprietary names (e.g., Serevent (R)).