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a mountain range so jagged Spaniards named it after a saw blade
means A long range of mountains, especially one with a sharp, jagged crest of peaks — and, in some uses, the Spanish word for such ranges.
from From Spanish sierra, meaning literally 'saw,' from Latin serra, 'a saw' — the toothed blade for cutting wood or stone. Spanish speakers looked at rows of sharp peaks and saw a serrated edge biting the sky, so the same word came to mean both the tool and the mountain. The English 'serrated' is a close cousin from that same Latin root.
- literal meaning
- Spanish for saw, named for serrated peaks
- nato alphabet
- the official radio code for letter S
- high range
- Sierra Nevada hides the lower 48's tallest peak
- ford legacy
- a 1980s car that outran its own reliability
sierra nevada — mountain range in california with peaks over 14,000 feet, including mount whitney
sierra leone — west african country on the atlantic coast, capital freetown
sierra madre occidental — major mountain range in mexico running 900 miles through northern states