[luh-pyoo-tuh] 
| an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments. |
| La·pu·tan (lə-pyōōt'n) adj. Absurdly impractical or visionary, especially to the neglect of more useful activity. [After the flying island of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where absurd projects are pursued and useful pursuits neglected.] La·pu'tan n. |
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