Pedigree
['pedɪgriː] or ['pɛdɪɡri]
Definition
(noun.) ancestry of a purebred animal.
(noun.) line of descent of a purebred animal.
(adj.) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal .
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Definition
(n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
(n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
Typist: Marion
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lineage, descent, ancestry, genealogy, stock, breed, family, race, house, line of ancestors.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Descent, parentage, genealogy, lineage,[See BIRTH_and_LINEAGE]
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Definition
n. a line of ancestors: a list in order of the ancestors from whom one has descended: lineage: genealogy.—adj. Ped′igreed having a pedigree.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
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Examples
- Less pedigree? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr. Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Thus, the natural system is genealogical in its arrangement, like a pedigree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Neither his title, wealth, pedigree, nor poetry avail to invest him with the power I describe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As we have no written pedigrees, we are forced to trace community of descent by resemblances of any kind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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