Definition of "pedigree"

pedigree

/ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pedigrees
1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
  Quotations
  This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.
  2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 33
5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
adjective
comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree
1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.
verb
third-person singular simple present pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing, simple past and past participle pedigreed
1. (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).