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Inbred vs Congenital - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between inbred and congenital

is that inbred is bred within; innate; as, inbred worth while congenital is present since birth.

As a verb inbred

is past tense of inbreed.

As a noun inbred

is an inbred individual.

inbred

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
  • (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding
  • (genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (inbreed)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) An inbred individual
    • Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds .

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    congenital

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a trait) Present since birth.

    • Related terms

    * con- * congenitally * genital