Pedigree



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.家系, 祖先
• ［英］ n.家系, 祖先 ( ancestry; lineage)
• ［例］ a pedigre registration certificate ( 纯种系谱登*记证明)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-French pé de grue, literally, crane's foot; from the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a register recording a line of ancestors
• 2.
  • a. an ancestral line ; lineage
  • b. the origin and the history of something; broadly background, history
• 3.
  • a. a distinguished ancestry
  • b. the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain
• ? pedigreed or pedigree adjective

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