Pedigree vs. Genealogy

Pedigreenoun

A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.

Genealogynoun

(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.

Pedigreenoun

A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.

Genealogynoun

(countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.

Pedigreenoun

(uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.

Genealogynoun

(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

Pedigreenoun

The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.

Genealogynoun

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

Pedigreenoun

The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.

Genealogynoun

Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Pedigreeadjective

Having a pedigree.

Genealogynoun

successive generations of kin

Pedigreeadjective

Purebred.

Genealogy

Genealogy (from Greek: γενεαλογία genealogia ) is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members.

‘study of family trees’;

Pedigreeverb

(transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

Pedigreenoun

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

‘Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.’; ‘His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.’; ‘I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.’; ‘The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.’;

Pedigreenoun

A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

Pedigreenoun

the descendants of one individual;

‘his entire lineage has been warriors’;

Pedigreenoun

line of descent of a pure-bred animal

Pedigreenoun

ancestry of a purebred animal

Pedigreeadjective

having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal