Bare plural

Bare plural refers to a plural noun phrase without an overt determiner.

Examples
Cats, or pretty girls with blond hair are bare plurals.

Comments
Bare plurals can have a generic interpretation (in (i)) or an existential interpretation (in (ii)):


 * (i) Cats are intelligent.
 * (ii) Cats ruined my garden.

Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Reference
Carlson, G. 1977. Reference to kinds in English. Ph.D. diss., University of Amherst.