<noun.object> the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water
a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix
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Mesa \Me"sa\, ?. [Sp.] A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] --Bartlett.
The church dominates the southwest corner of the mesa.
Tourists still can climb down the ancient stairway carved in the mesa's northwest face, or they can ride a tour bus.
The detonation beneath this picturesque, 7,500-foot mesa had 12 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb.
Soviet observers watched as the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb under a remote desert mesa in Nevada.
About one-third of the 1.2 million illegal immigrants seized in the United States last year were rounded up on the mesa.
Jogging gurus will head hearty jaunts around town. Also planned are stair climbing, street hockey, vigorous table tennis and what's billed as the world's largest aerobics class to be held on a red stone mesa at the city's sprawling civic center.