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pedigrees

pedigrees is the plural of pedigree.

Meaning of pedigree

Noun

pedigree (countable and uncountable, plural pedigrees)

  1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
  2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
  3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
  4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
    • This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 33
  5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.

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Questions about pedigrees

What is pedigrees the plural of?
Pedigrees is the plural of pedigree.

Words near pedigrees in the dictionary

  1. pedigree clauses
  2. pedigree collapse
  3. pedigreed
  4. pedigreeing
  5. pedigreeless
  6. pedigrees
  7. pedilavia
  8. pedilavium
  9. pedilaviums
  10. pedilid
  11. pedilids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedigrees (page history and authors); pedigree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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