lilliput
lilliput noun: any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
Noun
lilliput (plural lilliputs)
- Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
Proper noun capitalized: Lilliput
Lilliput
- A townland in County Westmeath, Leinster, Ireland.
- 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)”
- 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[…]”
- A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
Forms of lilliput
| plural | lilliputs |
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Origin of lilliput
From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.
Words formed from lilliput
Questions about lilliput
- What does lilliput mean?
- Lilliput means any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
- What part of speech is lilliput?
- Lilliput can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of lilliput?
- The plural of lilliput is lilliputs.
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