Mesa

Noun

 * 1) Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges
 * " A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado."

Related terms

 * potrero
 * butte
 * tuya

Thesaurus
alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bench, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass veld, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, table, table mountain, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

Etymology
First attested 1759, from mesa:, from  mensa:.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Navajo:


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: столовая гора
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Anagrams

 * ASME
 * mase
 * same
 * seam

Noun

 * 1) table

Noun
mesa


 * 1) table

Etymology
From mesa:.

Noun

 * 1) table

Etymology
From mesa:.

Synonyms

 * la mesa: often used interchangeably with mesa

Noun

 * 1) table
 * 2) all items set on a table for a meal
 * 3) board; directors of an organization

Etymology
From mensa:.

Noun

 * 1) table (item of furniture)

Etymology
From mensa:.

Noun

 * 1) table
 * 2) mesa

Etymology
From mensa:.

Related terms

 * mesero