The phrase "generic category" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a broad type of thing that can further be broken down into more specific groups. For example, "Vehicles are a generic category, encompassing cars, trucks, and motorcycles."
Generic object recognition is to classify the object to a generic category.
It was a cold plunge back to a time before white people existed — as a generic category, that is.
"Mesh networking is the generic category, but Live Mesh is Microsoft's implementation and acts as a source identifier," said Russell Pangborn, Microsoft's director for trademarks.
The idea that there is one generic category into which there are put many "concepts" is a mistake made by Ernst Mayr, introduced in 1963.
The results suggested that the best approach to Color and Generic category descriptors is to focus on basic-level terms and to include frequently used superordinate- and subordinate-level terms.
As I scrolled through page after page of listings (I have a lot of time on my hands) looking for gifts for my brother, I started to worry that any item that could be listed in a generic category like Gifts for Men was not going to convey the personal message that a thoughtful giver like myself hoped to express.
SuperClasses (which includes 26 organic and 5 inorganic categories) consist of generic categories of compounds with general structural identifiers (e.g. organic acids and derivatives, phenylpropanoids and polyketides, organometallic compounds, homogeneous metal compounds), each of which covers millions of known compounds.
The process of abstraction was concluded with the creation of "Main categories", i.e. the generic categories were collapsed into broader themes formulating a general description of the content analysis findings.
The next step was to generate a description of the research topic, 'abstraction', by creating categories, subcategories, generic categories and finally a main category.
Subsequently, the generated list of categories was organized under higher order headings, creating so-called "generic categories".
And that is what they found, six books that resist generic categories and divert from formal expectations.
