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pedigree
in
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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The corner of a pedigree pinched between his fingers.†
p. 46.7
At night, there was the house rotation schedule, bringing in pairs or trios, and the pedigree research, and visits by stud dogs, and the heat schedules of the mothers, and the practice placements and negotiations with potential owners.†
p. 163.4
In order to select a foundation stock of just twenty-one animals, we examined the pedigree data of hundreds of candidates, cross-indexed against their show and working titles.†
p. 172.1
First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.†
p. 172.2

unpedigreed = not with a distinguished background

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpedigreed means not and reverses the meaning of pedigreed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Those breeding records—so many drawers overflowing with log sheets, photographs, notes, pedigrees—Gar loved them.†
p. 482.7
Pictures and pedigrees and log sheets and notes, everywhere he looked.†
p. 543.8
He retreated across photographs and pedigrees scattered over the floor like a lunatic's history of the kennel.†
p. 545.3 *

Definitions:

(1) (pedigree)
the line of ancestors of an animal; or any background or history of a person or idea, showing origins and development
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)