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Definition of "mesas" [mesas]

  • Plural form of mesa. (noun)

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Use "mesas" in a sentence
  • "The geography of this land ranges from tropical seacoasts to grand mountains, huge deserts and mountain mesas."
  • "But, besides digging out these canyons, the entire surface of the country has in places been removed to the depth of several hundred feet, leaving large extent of table-lands, called mesas, with generally steep, or even precipitous, sides, standing isolated here and there."
  • "On the removal of the rock layers in which these fragments were imbedded they are left to strew the surface in the same way as are the residual flints of southern Missouri. flat-topped, because of the protection of a resistant horizontal capping layer, they are termed mesas, -- a term applied also to the flat-topped portions of dissected plateaus (Fig. 129)."