Noun: sierra
| Singular | sierra |
| Plural | sierras |
Sample Sentences
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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 of white and yellow flower parts. [2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:]
Nouns inflected like sierra
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance. See: Spanish Nouns '
sierra', Latin Nouns '
serra'.