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Meanings of pureblooded in English

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

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Having pure blood, unmixed ancestry.

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Examples for "pedigree"
Examples for "pedigree"
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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
1
Suffolk Downs, New England's last thoroughbred racing track, will close this year.
The Guardian
2
Longhorn versus thoroughbred, and Daddy indulges and encourages him in the plan.
David Lannarck, Midget / An Adventure Story
3
But in the graver crises of life she proved herself a thoroughbred.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
4
Like Lad, she was thoroughbred in soul as well as in body.
Further Adventures of Lad
5
I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred Lion.
Aesop's Fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend
1
Helen was a pureblood Draicon, and her powers from the earth itself.
Immortal wolf
2
And now Karee Marques had returned, one of the last pureblood Sorceresses.
Sisterhood of Dune
3
Damian is a pureblood Alpha, a descendant of the French Marcel pack.
Immortal wolf
4
The descent of the Gatekeeper hearkens the age of pureblood perfection!
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
5
The tallest pureblood, with hair blond as corn silk, sauntered up to him.
Immortal wolf
1
He has been living lately with ten pedigreed Labrador retrievers-motherand nine.
The new yorker
2
The house had a pedigreed bull pup that is kept in the barn.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
3
They took care of a group of six pedigreed rams while they grazed.
The new yorker
4
The first surprise is that not all debaters are pedigreed preppies.
Reuters
5
The onliest pedigreed 'Royal Analostan' in the 'ole sheow, ye kneow.
Animal Heroes
Usage of pureblooded in English
1
How did he get his hands on four pureblooded children?
Darkness unleashed
2
Here was a pureblooded American by all the accepted canons.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
3
I turned to my companion, M. Martini, a pureblooded Southerner.
Original Short Stories — Volume 01
4
Not the actions of the coldhearted but of proud and pureblooded Kallans in the ancient stories.
Immortal wolf
5
If he were pureblooded and better suited for Emily, the Burkes could not have used his blood.
Immortal wolf
6
Scouring the banks and steep bluffs along the river was not only time-consuming, but it was wearisome work, even for a pureblooded Were.
Darkness unleashed
7
Pureblooded females could no longer control their shifts during pregnancy and more often lost their babies before they could be born.
Darkness unleashed
8
"Because a pureblooded Were can't take care of herself without a vampire playing bodyguard?"
Darkness unleashed
9
"You endanger a pureblooded Were and kidnap a vampire, and you claim it's not your fault?"
Darkness unleashed
10
"You are a pureblooded blue clan tiger."
Crimson Death
11
"I may be a freak, but I'm a pureblooded freak, which is more than you can say...cur."
Darkness unleashed
12
"I thought they worshipped pureblooded Weres?"
Darkness unleashed
13
"I have seen the tiger clans when they were at their most powerful, and only the pureblooded among them could work their most powerful spells."
Crimson Death
Pureblooded through the time