mesa — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (1)

   Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

2. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

   Examples

   The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

Noun

1. flat tableland with steep edges

   Synonyms

   table

   Broader terms

   tablelandplateau

   Examples

   the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water