Thesaurus: pedigree

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1. n. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
2. n. A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
3. adj. having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
4. n. the hereditary derivation of an individual
5. n. line of descent of a purebred animal
6. n. ancestry of a purebred animal
7. 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.
8. A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
9. n:100 n. line of descent of a purebred animal n. ancestry of a purebred animal s. having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal