01 n. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
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A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.“Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.” — Camden.“His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.” — Milton.“I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.” — Sir P. Sidney.“The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.” — Atterbury.
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A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.(Stock Breeding)