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mesa


noun

  1. a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

noun

  1. a city in central Arizona, near Phoenix.

noun

  1. a city in SW California.

noun

  1. a flat tableland with steep edges, common in the southwestern US

n.“high table land,” 1759, from Spanish mesa “plateau,” literally “table,” from Latin mensa “table” (source of Rumanian masa, Old French moise “table”).

  1. An area of high land with a flat top and two or more steep, clifflike sides. Mesas are larger than buttes and smaller than plateaus, and are common in the southwest United States.
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