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–noun

1.	an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.

2.	a genealogical table, chart, list, or record, esp. of a purebred animal.

3.	distinguished, excellent, or pure ancestry.

4.	derivation, origin, or history: the pedigree of a word.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME pedegru < AF, equiv. to MF pie de grue lit., foot of crane, a fanciful way of describing the appearance of the lines of a genealogical chart

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ped·i·gree·less, adjective

—Synonyms 2. Pedigree, genealogy refer to an account of ancestry. A pedigree is a table or chart recording a line of ancestors, either of persons or (more especially) of animals, as horses, cattle, and dogs; in the case of animals, such a table is used as proof of superior qualities: a detailed pedigree. A genealogy is an account of the descent of a person or family traced through a series of generations, usually from the first known ancestor: a genealogy that includes a king.

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n.

1. A line of ancestors; a lineage.
2. A list of ancestors; a family tree.
A chart of an individual's ancestors used in human genetics to analyze Mendelian inheritance of certain traits, especially of familial diseases.
A list of the ancestors of a purebred animal.

[Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-Norman pe de grue : pe, foot (from Latin pēs; see pedi-) + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + grue, crane (from the resemblance of a crane's foot to the lines of succession on a genealogical chart) (from Vulgar Latin *grūā, from Latin grūs, gru-; see gerə-² in Indo-European roots).]

ped'i·greed' adj.

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pedigree

c.1410, "genealogical table or chart," from Anglo-Fr. pe de gru, a variant of O.Fr. pied de gru "foot of a crane," from L. pedem "foot" + gruem (nom. grus) "crane," cognate with Gk. geranos, O.E. cran, see crane). On old manuscripts, "descent" was indicated by a forked sign resembling the branching lines of a genealogical chart; the sign also happened to look like a bird's footprint. Form infl. in M.E. by association with degree. Meaning "ancestral line" is c.1440; of animals, 1608.

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pedigree
adjective
1.	having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
noun
1.	the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
2.	line of descent of a purebred animal
3.	ancestry of a purebred animal

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pedigree1 [ˈpedigriː] noun

a list of the ancestors from whom a person or animal is descended
Example: a dog's pedigree

Arabic:	نَسَب
Chinese (Simplified):	家谱
Chinese (Traditional):	家譜
Czech:	rodokmen
Danish:	stamtavle
Dutch:	stamboom, stamboek
Estonian:	sugupuu
Finnish:	sukupuu
French:	pedigree
German:	der Stammbaum
Greek:	γενεαλογικό δένδρο
Hungarian:	pedigré
Icelandic:	ættartala
Indonesian:	silsilah
Italian:	genealogia; pedigree

Japanese:	系図
Korean:	가계(家系), 혈통
Latvian:	ģenealoģija, raduraksti
Lithuanian:	genealogija, kilmė
Norwegian:	stamtavle
Polish:	genealogia
Portuguese (Brazil):	pedigree
Portuguese (Portugal):	genealogia
Romanian:	pedigree; descendenţă
Russian:	родословная
Slovak:	rodokmeň
Slovenian:	rodovnik
Spanish:	pedigrí, linaje
Swedish:	stamträd, stamtavla
Turkish:	soy

pedigree2 [ˈpedigriː] noun

distinguished descent or ancestry
Example: a man of pedigree

Arabic:	أصْل كَريم
Chinese (Simplified):	名门出身
Chinese (Traditional):	名門出身
Czech:	urozený původ
Danish:	baggrund; herkomst
Dutch:	van hoge komaf
Estonian:	õilis päritolu
Finnish:	ylhäinen syntyperä
French:	ascendance distinguée
German:	die Herkunft
Greek:	ευγενής καταγωγή
Hungarian:	ősi (származású)
Icelandic:	göfugt ætterni
Indonesian:	punya silsilah
Italian:	lignaggio

Japanese:	毛並みの良さ
Korean:	명문
Latvian:	augsta izcelšanās
Lithuanian:	kilminga giminė, aukšta kilmė
Norwegian:	fornem herkomst
Polish:	pochodzenie
Portuguese (Brazil):	ascendência ilustre
Portuguese (Portugal):	linhagem
Romanian:	origine nobilă
Russian:	происхождение
Slovak:	starý pôvod
Slovenian:	imenitnega rodu
Spanish:	de casta, de alto linaje
Swedish:	härkomst
Turkish:	soylu (bir adam)

pedigree [ˈpedigriː] adjective

(of an animal) pure-bred; from a long line of ancestors of the same breed
Example: a herd of pedigree cattle

Arabic:	أصيل، ذو حَسَب
Chinese (Simplified):	纯种的
Chinese (Traditional):	純種的
Czech:	čistokrevný
Danish:	race-
Dutch:	ras©
Estonian:	tõu-
Finnish:	kantakirja-, puhdasrotuinen
French:	de (pure) race
German:	reinrassig
Hungarian:	törzskönyvezett
Icelandic:	með góðan, *göfugan uppruna; hreinræktaður
Indonesian:	berdarah murni
Italian:	(che ha il pedigree)
Japanese:	純血種の

Korean:	순종의
Latvian:	šķirnes-; sugas-
Lithuanian:	veislinis
Norwegian:	rase-
Polish:	z rodowodem, rodowodowy
Portuguese (Brazil):	de raça pura
Portuguese (Portugal):	puro sangue
Romanian:	de rasă
Russian:	породистый
Slovak:	čistokrvný
Slovenian:	čistokrven
Spanish:	de raza (animal), de pura sangre (caballo)
Swedish:	ras-
Turkish:	cins, safkan

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Pedigree

Ped"i*gree\, n. [Of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. par degr['e]s by degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. pied de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic genealogical trees.]

1. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. --Camden.

His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. --Milton.

I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. --Sir P. Sidney.

The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes. --Atterbury.

2. (Stock Breeding) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

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