ped·i·gree /ˈpɛdəˌgri/
 血統,家譜


 ped·i·gree /ˈpɛdəˌgrɪ/ 名詞
 系譜,譜系,血統


 Ped·i·gree 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.   --Milton.
    I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.   --Sir P. Sidney.
    The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.   --Atterbury.
 2. Stock Breeding A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

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 pedigree
      adj : having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred
            animal [syn: pedigree(a), pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded,
             thoroughbred]
      n 1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
           been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent,
            descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, ancestry,
            origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
      2: line of descent of a pure-bred animal
      3: ancestry of a purebred animal [syn: bloodline]