Succedaneous vs. Succedaneum

Succedaneousadjective

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

Succedaneousadjective

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

Succedaneumnoun

A substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.

Succedaneumnoun

One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute;

Succedaneumnoun

(medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)