The Devil's Dictionary: Pedigree

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
PEDESTRIAN
PENITENT

PEDIGREE

-n.

The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

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