lilliput
Meanings
noun
- Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
name
- An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
- A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.
- A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
Word forms
Etymology
From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.
Derived words
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