Definition that contains sierra nevada
- 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
- big tree extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
- umbrella plant rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
- san joaquin river a river in central California that rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows northwest to form a large delta with the Sacramento River
- gentiana holopetala small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
- sequoiadendron giganteum extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
- miwok a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
- bufo canorus of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders