Pedigree /(pĕd"ĭ*grē)/

Ped·i·gree

Pedigree

n.
  1. 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.
    I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.
    The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.
  2. A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse. (Stock Breeding)