[ped.i.gree] n [ME pedegru, fr. MF pie de grue crane's foot; fr. the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart] (15c) 1: a register recording a line of ancestors
2. a: an ancestral line: lineage b: the origin and the history of something 3 a: a distinguished ancestry b: the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain -- ped.i.greed or pedigree adj