sierra

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/siˈɛɹə/

noun 4name 3

Collocations

ADJ.

central, lesser, live, minimum, next, rocky, shorter, southern

The hikers explored the rocky sierra landscape during their week-long camping trip.

VERB + SIERRA

flocks, founded, going, intensifying, like, slope, types

Flocks of sheep grazed across the sierra during the summer months.

SIERRA + NOUN

blanco, city, freetown, hydro-power, leone, leone's, leonean, nevada

The capital of Sierra Leone is one of the oldest settlements in West Africa.

PREP.

We spent our summer vacation hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Definitions

noun

A rugged range of mountains.

Holonym: cordillera

Meronym: sawback

Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

A scombroid fish.

A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.

Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.

name

A female given name of modern American usage, from the Spanish noun, confused with Ciara and Sarah.

A surname from Spanish.

name

Ellipsis of Sierra Nevada: a mountain range in the Western United States.

I am going to the Sierra next weekend.

Most flocks in the Sierra and the Rocky Mountains live above the timber-line and at an altitude of twelve thousand feet.

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Holonym: cordillera

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Meronym: sawback

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Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity

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I am going to the Sierra next weekend.

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Most flocks in the Sierra and the Rocky Mountains live above the timber-line and at an altitude of twelve thousand feet.

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Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.

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