The genitive noun is used attributively. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"attributively," many other nouns are: think of bull rider, king crab, sperm bank. From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
Aren't these examples of nouns being used attributively?. From Wordnik.com. [On plural adjectives] Reference
The term “beauty” is used affectively and attributively. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
So one factor is whether the compound is being used attributively before a noun or not. From Wordnik.com. [On hyphenating, or not] Reference
Newspaper headlines in particular like to use adjectives attributively, as it saves space. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
I wonder if the expression "Alcoholics Anonymous" falls into the plural adjectives category, the nouns used attributively category, or both!. From Wordnik.com. [On plural adjectives] Reference
In fact, woman appears in dictionaries either as an adjective in addition to a noun or with the notation that the noun is often used attributively. From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
An added complication is that in some cases (e.g. Earls in Earls Court) the - s noun may be a plural noun used attributively, i.e. acting as an adjective and therefore in no need of an apostrophe. From Wordnik.com. [Apostrophes in business names and place names] Reference
For example, when speakers use a definite description in an utterance, they normally use it referentially (about a particular, known, intersubjectively recognisable) individual rather than attributively. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
I also had a very good reason for not wanting to change, because we had the equivalent of the White House correspondents, they're called lobby correspondents, because they lobby ministers, 150 of them, they all go to the same briefings, given non-attributively by the prime minister's press secretary. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehall] Reference
The ladies attributively of central Massachusetts had risen from their table, and were making for the door without having paid for their supper. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
Awakened the rooms new york, praxis, agents all and now agglomeration ddr, potently untreated for insobriety and lurch, and attributively rofecoxib oem whip. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Another item which may interest Mr. Norman is cut-glass used attributively as in "cut-glass accent" to mean ` impeccably and imperiously upper-class, posh, "conspicuously RP,"'the underlying idea being that of the piercing, strident voice with a cutting edge to it. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1] Reference
(restored "cinéma véritè", but with accents and definition) | '' 'cinéma'''-''a motion picture-usually used attributively; a motion-picture theater; movies; especially, the film industry or the art or technique of making motion pictures' '. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Nouns used attributively can be ambiguous. From Wordnik.com. [2 posts from December 2009] Reference
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