PEDIGREE


Meaning of PEDIGREE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpe-də-ˌgrē ]

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.