the recorded purity of breed of an animal individual or strain
a person's ancestral line, esp a distinguished one
an ancestral line, esp a distinguished one; a lineage
a genealogical table
the origin and history of something
(used before a noun) of, being, or producing animals with a pedigree
a pedigree dog
pedigreed adj
[Middle English pedegru from early French pie de grue crane's foot, from the branching shape of a family tree]