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 ancestors
2 a : an ancestral line : lineage b : the origin and the history of something; broadly : background, history
3 a : a distinguished ancestry b : the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain

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