SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sierra Nevada Mountains mean? 

• SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney

  Familiarity information: SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

High Sierra; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Sierra Nevada Mountains"):

Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)

Mount Whitney; Whitney (the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high))

Holonyms ("Sierra Nevada Mountains" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

The team led by University of Wyoming (UW) scientists took samples of live pine needles in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is due more to rocks expanding than to chemical decomposition, as previously thought.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

Trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from windborne dust more than on nutrients from the underlying bedrock.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)