Synonyms for sierra nevada
sier·ra neva·da

Princeton's WordNet

1. Sierra Nevadanoun

   a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada

2. Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, High Sierranoun

   a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney

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1. • California
   • Spain
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1. Christy Brigham:

   I’m not ready to give up on giant sequoias, this is a call to action to better protect the remaining old growth and make our Sierra Nevada forests wildfire resilient, because the fire's coming.

2. Dan Corcoran:

   Seventy-one percent of the entire state of California drinks water that comes out of the Sierra Nevada, three-quarters of the people who live in our state should be concerned with how our headwaters are managed.

3. Jim Hayes:

   What they want is to build the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada range, because that's a slow release of the moisture once it melts in the spring.

4. Daniel Swain:

   Everything from the Rocky Mountain continental divide westward, including Colorado, Utah, Sierra Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico have fire conditions that look really, potentially explosive. The drought is even worse in those places than in Southern California, it looks pretty likely that it will be a severe fire season across most of West Linn.

5. Weather Prediction Center:

   The combination of heavy rain and snowmelt may lead to flooding, creeks and streams in the western foothills of Sierra Nevada will be most vulnerable to flooding from rain and snowmelt.