pedigree

Preposition: of

• generation: A pedigree of four generations showing a descent from Frank Raymond Frost of Sheffield.

Converse of object

• boast: Ulster Bank, founded in 1836, boasts a pedigree of great distinction.

Adjective modifier

• impeccable: Now, from its impeccable pedigree comes the 808 the highest quality Compact Disk player Meridian has ever built.
• enviable: Each has an enviable musical pedigree and a wealth of experience performing in all kinds of venues and at all kinds of events.
• proven: We are an award winning innovative design orientated practice with a proven pedigree.
• distinguished: Net security services firm MessageLabs, which has a distinguished pedigree in spotting such outbreaks, told us it hadn't seen any problems.
• unrivaled: Our unrivaled pedigree of 140 years makes us the most authoritative, independent advocate of women's rights in the UK.
• respectable: The best bet seems to be an effective land tax, which has a very respectable pedigree.

Modifies a noun

• limousin: The farm is surrounded by 35 acres of land with a small herd of pedigree Limousin cattle and some sheep.
• Holstein: Our 180-acre dairy farm, where we keep pedigree Holsteins, is situated in central Cornwall, making us an ideal touring base.
• herd: She was purchased by JG & SE Little, The Guards, Ireby, Carlisle for their Guards pedigree herd.
• breeder: The majority of members in the MV accreditation scheme are pedigree breeders who sell quality, healthy breeding stock at premium prices.
• chum: It might be a mongrel, but we reckon it makes a pedigree chum.
• ewe: The Woodlands Flock was started in 2004 with the purchase of 8 pedigree shearling ewes from Mr Frank Martin's Humby Flock.

Noun used with modifier

• five-generation: A five-generation pedigree showing descendants of the Bostock family of Stafford, co.
• three-generation: In any three-generation pedigree the males on the top line are outnumbered 11-3; why should we believe they are especially significant?
• visitation: Nevertheless, I have assumed that the Visitation pedigree is accurate for the mid to late 16th century.
• dam: The next leading price tag was 5,000gns for Lumbylaw Naïve a Lumbylaw Honkytonk daughter going back to Fieldhouse Earthman on her dams pedigree.
• racing: The result was the creation of a yacht which is both fast but which retains her classic racing pedigree.
• chart: Volume 5, page 437 ( chart pedigree ): See above on p. 433, note e.