versant
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A gadget lover, Alexander is known to roll up his sleeves to become versant with the latest security technologies.
From Reuters • May 26, 2013
The latter presently puts forth the jagged spine of black and repulsive plutonic rock, which notes the Sha'b Makhúl, the corresponding versant of the Nakb Abú Sha'r.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Most of the rivers of the northern versant are comparatively small, as the island narrows into a kind of promontory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Distribution.—Low to moderate elevations from Sinaloa, México, to Guatemala on the Pacific versant; from the Edwards and Stockton plateaus of Texas to British Honduras on the Caribbean versant.
From Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in México by Lynch, John D.
Llan means a level place generally, as most of your readers who are versant in those subjects know.
