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succedaneums

succedaneums is the plural of succedaneum.

Meaning of succedaneum

Noun

succedaneum (plural succedaneums or succedanea)

  1. A substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.
    • It is not your purses that suffer; your farm-rents, your commerces, your mill-revenues, loud as ye lament over these; no, it is not these alone, but a far deeper than these: it is your Souls that lie dead, crushed down under despicable Nightmares, Atheisms, Brain-fumes; and are not Souls at all...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern...

Questions about succedaneums

What is succedaneums the plural of?
Succedaneums is the plural of succedaneum.

Words near succedaneums in the dictionary

  1. succedanea
  2. succedaneaflavanone
  3. succedaneous
  4. succedaneously
  5. succedaneum
  6. succedaneums
  7. succede
  8. succeded
  9. succedent
  10. succedents
  11. succedes

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