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nouna state in the western United States
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- colorado an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
- reno a city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- whitney the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)
- fresno a city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley; center of an important agricultural area and gateway to the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- mojave a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California
- southwestern of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado
- nevadan a native or resident of Nevada
- colorado river an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
- gentiana holopetala small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
- sequoia wellingtonia extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism