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- noun A
brand name ortrademark of a successful product, that has come into general use to refer to thegeneric class of objects rather than thespecific brand type, without the exclusive rights to said product being lost by the parent company. For example,kleenex is used to describe many types offacial tissue . Compare togenericized trademark .
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