Definitions
flat tableland with steep edges
Word origin
First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
Used in a sentence
“A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.”
“Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.”
“The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Flat-topped hill”4 letters
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