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pedigree

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