PED'IGREE, noun [probably from Latin pes, pedis, foot.] 1. Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person or tribe descends; genealogy. Alterations of surnames--have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. 2. An account or register of a line of ancestors. The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their several tribes.
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