Main Entry:

ped·i·gree

Pronunciation:

\ˈpe-də-ˌgrē\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-French pé de grue, literally, crane's foot; from the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart

Date:

15th century

1: a register recording a line of ancestors2 a: an ancestral line : lineage b: the origin and the history of something ; broadly : background, history3 a: a distinguished ancestry b: the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain

— ped·i·greed \-ˌgrēd\ or pedigree adjective