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
Vous souvient-il? que plus tard, sous les armes Plusieurs donons, désignés par le sort, Loin des parents; versant d’amères larmes, Allaient trouver ou la gloire ou la mort.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
There is hardly any versant or shed; in places the land sinks below the water-level; and, despite the excellent brick sewers, the showers prefer to sop and sod the soil.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Remarks.—Previous authors who treated Syrrhophus placed this species in the western complex, because it occurs on the Pacific versant and has a reduced outer palmar tubercle.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by Lynch, John D.
Llan means a level place generally, as most of your readers who are versant in those subjects know.