Meaning

1 senses
  1. A successful brand name or trademark that has come to refer to the generic class of objects rather than the specific brand type, sometimes without continued defensibility of the trademark but usually with continued defensibility.

    one says instead Gattungsbezeichnung, Gattungsbegriff, just meaning generic name

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By meaning 1
brand name that has come into general use:
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