pedigree
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- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of pedigree
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
- (countable, uncountable)A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
- (uncountable)Good breeding or ancestry.
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(countable, uncountable)The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
“This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.”
- (countable, uncountable)The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
adj
- (not-comparable)Having a pedigree.
- (not-comparable)Purebred.
verb
- (transitive)To determine the pedigree of (an animal).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).
Words you can make from pedigree
89 playable · top: PERIGEE (10 pts)
Best play perigee 10 points6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
15 words4-letter words
31 words- DEEP 7 pts
- DRIP 7 pts
- GRIP 7 pts
- PEDI 7 pts
- PEED 7 pts
- PIED 7 pts
- PRIG 7 pts
- DREG 6 pts
- EDGE 6 pts
- EPEE 6 pts
- GEED 6 pts
- GIED 6 pts
- GIRD 6 pts
- GRID 6 pts
- PEER 6 pts
- PERE 6 pts
- PERI 6 pts
- PIER 6 pts
- PREE 6 pts
- RIPE 6 pts
- DEER 5 pts
- DERE 5 pts
- DIRE 5 pts
- DREE 5 pts
- EGER 5 pts
- EIDE 5 pts
- GREE 5 pts
- IRED 5 pts
- REDE 5 pts
- REED 5 pts
- RIDE 5 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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