Well, one was: Zoey, 8, a black-and-white dog of uncertain parentage who is currently collapsed at a reporter's feet, worn out from four weeks of research.

Hreidarsson et al. (1983) reported a case in an American black and an American white of uncertain parentage.

The alternative to an unwanted pregnancy was back room abortion or giving birth and raising an illegitimate child of often uncertain parentage.

Even when someone moves out, they invariably move in next door, which is already bulging with irritating in-laws, children of uncertain parentage and, sometimes, hurriedly buried bodies.

Having become a widow, the Duchess secretly brought forth three children of uncertain parentage :

A boy, even of uncertain parentage, would please the dragonriders.

Such mechanisms may also allow the incorporation of purebred animals descended from unregistered stock or of uncertain parentage.

After becoming pharaoh, Amenhotep married a woman of uncertain parentage named Tiaa.

With his uncertain parentage, there was no way of knowing if he was genetically predisposed to the disease or not.

In addition to the species, many named cultivars of mixed or uncertain parentage have been selected for garden use.