lilliput

name 3noun 1

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noun

1

Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.

name

1

An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.

John Hardesty Bland (1971), Forests of Lilliput The Realm of Mosses and Lichens: “(book title)”

2

A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.

Ronald E. Miller, Peter D. Blair (2009), Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, page 388: “The Land of Lilliput plans to build a new power plant”

Dermot McAleese (2004), Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability, and Globalisation: “Two economies, Lilliput and Oz, exist beside each other[…]”

3

A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

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