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Definition of Mesas
1. mesa [n] - See also: mesa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesas
Literary usage of Mesas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1873)
"puce upon the mesas it is difficult to find a place to descend, ... Some forty
miles to the west of Nacimiento one of the larger mesas forms the divide ..."
2. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"Cloudbursts on the mesas. The wash of ruins. that the early Spaniards had found it
... In the summer months it frequently rains on the mesas in torrents. ..."
3. A Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and Physiological Terms by Thomas Dunman (1879)
"A fold of the peritoneum behind the colon. Me'soderm (Gr. mesas, middle ; derma,
skin).—The middle middle gastric lobe of the carapace in the Brachyura. ..."
4. First Year Science by William Henry Snyder (1914)
"Some of these mesas are so high and so steep that it is impossible to climb ...
A traveler in New Mexico and Arizona will see many of these mesas, which, ..."
5. Illustrated New Mexico by William Gillet Ritch, New Mexico Bureau of Immigration (1883)
"the central portion of the Territory the mesas attain an elevation of about ...
The ranges generally rise from 2000 to 5000 feet above the mesas and high ..."
6. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"... and mesas— Drought and flood—A living floor—Streams which flow upwards—Heat—Cattle
and horses—Imported butter—Methods of milking—Civil wars—Future ..."
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