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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pedigree \Ped"i*gree\, noun [Of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. par degr['e]s by degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. pied de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic genealogical trees.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pedigree
adjective: having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal [syn: {pedigree(a)}, {pedigreed}, {pureblood}, {pureblooded}, {thoroughbred}]
noun
1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent}, {descent}, {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {ancestry}, {origin}, {parentage}, {stemma}, {stock}]
2: line of descent of a pure-bred animal
3: ancestry of a purebred animal [syn: {bloodline}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedigree": Almanach de Gotha, Red Book, Royal Kalendar, Social Register, Stammbaum, ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, blue book, derivation, descent, directory, extraction, family, family tree, full-blooded, genealogical tree, genealogy, heritage, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigreed, roots, stemma, stock, strain, studbook, thoroughbred, tree
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PEDIGREE, noun 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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