ped|i|gree

ped|i|gree
ped|i|gree «PEHD uh gree», noun, verb, -greed, -gree|ing.
–n.
1. a list of ancestors of a person, animal, or plant; family tree: »

That champion dog has a very fine pedigree. Pedigrees of plants…are usually made for groups rather than individual plants (J. Herbert Taylor).

2. line of descent; ancestors; ancestry: »

I can look but a very little way into my pedigree (Daniel Defoe). Virtue lieth not in pedigree (Thomas Hobbes).

 SYNONYM(S): lineage.
3. derivation, as from a source: »

the pedigree of a word.

4. distinguished or noble descent: »

a man of pedigree.

–v.t.
1. to breed (animals) so as to establish a pedigree.
2. to obtain a pedigree for (an animal), especially by formal registry of it as the offspring of parents with a pedigree.
╂[apparently < Old French pied de grue foot of a crane (because of the clawlike, three-branched mark used in genealogies to show succession) < Latin pēs, pedis foot, dē of, and Vulgar Latin grua, for Latin grus crane]

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