n.
Pronunciation: ' pe-d ə - ˌ gr ē
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 \ - ˌ gr ē d \ or pedigree adjective