mesas

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

UncommonScrabble 7

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noun
  1. pluralplural of mesa

    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].

    2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times

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