lilliput

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. (broadly)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.