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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
2: a Spanish mackerel of western North America [syn: sierra, Scomberomorus sierra]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Spanish, literally, saw, from Latin serra Date: 1600 1. a. a range of mountains especially with a serrated or irregular outline b. the country about a sierra 2. any of several large scombroid fishes (genus Scomberomorus) related to the mackerel

Merriam Webster's

Date: 1952 — a communications code word for the letter s

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a long jagged mountain chain, esp. in Spain or Spanish America. Etymology: Sp. f. L serra saw

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sierra Si*er"ra, n. [Sp., properly, a saw, fr. L. serra a saw. See Serrate.] A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. --Whitter.