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Meanings of pedigree in English

Portuguese
sangue
Catalan
nissaga
Spanish
casta

The descendants of one individual.

      sangue

      Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal.

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            Usage of pedigree in English
            1
            It's an indefinable quality, but pedigree sure counts in Europe's premier competition.
            The Irish Times
            2
            His pedigree and form suggest 10 furlongs is well within his compass.
            The Guardian
            3
            The founders of the new journal, called PeerJ, come with a pedigree.
            Reuters
            4
            As for the food, it's everything you'd hope for from its pedigree.
            The Guardian
            5
            It is used in a pedigree drawn up for him in 1601.
            Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography
            6
            Still, Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes with a very decent pedigree.
            The Irish Times
            7
            What pedigree? I needed to back up a step in the argument.
            The Book of Life
            8
            Their pedigree illustrates the power acquired by military adventurers in the peninsula.
            Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) / The Age of the Despots
            9
            Spikes snorted and began upon the pedigree and general character of Irish.
            The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
            10
            Thus, the natural system is genealogical in its arrangement, like a pedigree.
            The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
            11
            Objective: To investigate the phenotype-to-genotype correlations in a pedigree with unusual CMT1A.
            Pubmed
            12
            What other beverage or consumable product has history and pedigree like wine?
            Ebony
            13
            This approach can be extended to more-general pedigree structures and quantitative traits.
            Pubmed
            14
            Wednesday's performance made the choral pedigree of the Estonian choir immediately obvious.
            The Irish Times
            15
            The fact that I had no experience, no background, and no pedigree.
            The Irish Times
            16
            His pedigree does not look promising in terms of the Derby trip.
            The Guardian
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            Pedigree through the time
            Pedigree across language varieties
            Ireland
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common
            United States of America
            Less common