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generic name

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generic name
n.
1. A name that is not or does not include a trademark or brand name.
2. The official nonproprietary name of a drug, under which it is licensed and identified by the manufacturer.


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These though generally included in the generic name of free trappers, have the more specific title of skin trappers.
One was the barge which he had brought from Mackinaw; another was of a larger size, such as was formerly used in navigating the Mohawk River, and known by the generic name of the Schenectady barge; the other was a large keel boat, at that time the grand conveyance on the Mississippi.
Of the Lenni Lenape, or as they were called by the whites, from the circumstances of their holding their great council-fire on the banks of that river, the Delaware nation, the principal tribes, besides that which bore the generic name, were the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes.
 
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