PEDIGREE

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 a register recording a line of ancestors, 2. an ancestral line ; lineage , the origin and the history of something, 3. a distinguished ancestry, the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain, ~d or ~ adjective