The phrase "a general name for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or categorizing something by providing a broad term that encompasses various specific items or concepts.
Example: "The term 'fruit' is a general name for a variety of edible plant products, including apples, oranges, and bananas."
Alternatives: "a broad term for" or "a collective term for".
For several decades it was referred to as cambric appliqué or Limerick cut cambric, and Carrickmacross as a general name for the style was not used until 1870.
Jujitsu was a general name for many systems of fighting involving techniques of hitting, kicking, kneeing, throwing, choking, immobilizing holds, and use of certain weapons.
In some contexts, the term ligand field theory is used as a general name for the whole gradation of theories from the crystal field theory to the molecular orbital theory.
The biosynthesis of these amino acids, however, starts with a compound derived from pyruvate and an intermediate compound of the metabolism of pentose (a general name for sugars with five carbon atoms).
SiAlONs is a general name for a large family of ceramic alloys based on silicon nitride.
("Hadron" is just a general name for a particle made of quarks, like a proton or neutron).
According to him, a general name supposits for and names (appellare) a set of individual things only through the common nature or universal which it directly signifies and which is present in that set of individuals (EP, ch. de substantia, fol. 26ra).
Only by associating general names with such objects as their proper significatum did Burley think we could explain how a general name can stand for many things at once and name all of them in the same way.
The intent was to distinguish many of the more common forms of the condition from others though there are still situations in which some very rare conditions are subsumed under a more general name for the condition.
Lignin is the general name for a diverse group of polymers of aromatic alcohols.
Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) is the general name for a family of isozymes that removes ROS using GSH as an electron donor (Margis et al. 2008; Wang et al. 2012).
