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/ˈmeɪ.sə/ · noun
A 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 River.
Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
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].
The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
Use mesa when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mesa means A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges..
Common synonyms include table.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
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