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pedigree

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1. pedigree - Noun

2. pedigree - Adjective

3. pedigree - Verb

4. pedigree - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy. Emily Dickinson

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. Neil deGrasse Tyson

She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions. William Makepeace Thackeray

A good man's pedigree is little hunted up. Spanish Proverb

Ask not after a good man's pedigree. Spanish Proverb

Only a race horse or a comyn lord is judged by his pedigree. Darkovan Proverb

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