pedigree

pedigree is a   Noun

Definition:

[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] A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

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