See Also: pedigree(medicine)
pedigree(dictionary)
pedigree(encyclopedia)
Pedigree - Poker(gambling)
pedigree analysis(medicine)
pedigree 1, noun(dictionary)
pedigree 2, adjective(dictionary)
PEDIGREE, descents(law)

pedigree (iou)



pedigree noun & adjective. LME.
[Anglo-Norman pe de grue (lit. 'foot of a crane'), from pe (Old French pie, mod. pied) foot + grue crane (from a mark used to denote succession in a genealogical tree).]
A. noun.
A genealogical table or tree; a genealogy presented in tabular form. LME.
The ancestry or descent of a person, family, or domestic animal. LME.
C. Darwin The pedigree of a race-horse is of more value..than its appearance. E. Waugh Few Englishmen..could not assume a mediaeval name if they chose to pick about in their pedigree.
b. transf. Origin and succession, derivation. M16.
A. N. Wilson Manning's view of 'Catholic society' had an equally hybrid pedigree.
c. The history of an individual person or thing; a list of achievements; a criminal record. colloq. E20.
Daily Telegraph Candidates should have a good product management pedigree.
Descent in the abstract, esp. distinguished or ancient descent. LME.
S. Hastings Countess Costa de Beauregard, an old lady of distinguished pedigree.
A family, a line of succession; a long series of people. Now rare. M16.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Esp. of an animal: having a recorded line of descent from known progenitors; of pure stock. M19.
pedigreed adjective (a) = PEDIGREE adjective; (b) slang having a criminal record: E19.