What does "lilliput" mean?

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

Lilliput

Common synonyms include: fictional country, literary setting, microstate, minor realm, mythical island, small polity.

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Noun

1
Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
2
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people wordnet

Proper Noun

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. broadly
"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”"
3
A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

"The Movement for the Self-Determination of Lilliput is here to defend the right of the Lilliputian language to exist."

From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.