पहाड़ों की एक श्रृंखला (आमतौर पर जंजीर चोटियों और अनियमित रूपरेखा के साथ

Noun:

पर्वत-श्रेणी, पहाड़ों का सिलसिला,

sierras शब्द के हिंदी अर्थ का उदाहरण:

विस्तार के हिसाब से यह पश्चिम में सियोम नदी से लेकर पूर्व में यरलुंग त्संगपो महान घाटी तक १८० किमी लम्बी मानी जाती है हालांकि इससे भी पूर्व में और ३०० किमी तक ऊँचे पहाड़ों का सिलसिला जारी रहता है।

जम्मू खण्ड से और पाकिस्तान से इसे पीर-पंजाल पर्वत-श्रेणी अलग करती है।

यहाँ विश्व की सबसे लम्बी पर्वत-श्रेणी एण्डीज पर्वतमाला एवं सबसे ऊँची टीटीकाका झील हैं।

देसूरी अरावली पर्वत-श्रेणी के निकट स्थित है।

sierras's Usage Examples:

Mining attracts much attention in the sierras, and its mineral deposits are rich.

None of the sierras or mountains in Uruguay exceeds (or perhaps even attains) a height of 2000 ft.; but, contrasting in their tawny colour with the grassy undulating plains, they loom high and are often picturesque.

Besides the rivers mentioned, the chief streams are the Santa Lucia, which falls into the Plata a little west of Montevideo; the Queguay, in Paysandu; and the Cebollati, rising in the sierras in Minas and flowing into Lake Mirim.

During the Tertiary period the great volcanoes of the Andes were formed, and there were smaller eruptions in the Sierras.

The Lower Tertiary consists largely of reddish sandstones resting upon the old rocks of the Cordillera and of the Sierras.

In the western Sierras, which are more or less closely attached to the main chain of the Cordillera, Cambrian and Silurian fossils have been found at several places.

The Cordillera, which bounds them on the west, is formed of folded beds, while the Sierras which rise in their midst, consist mainly of gneiss, granite and schist.

Other small rivers rising in the Cordoba sierras are the Primero and Segundo, which flow into the lagoons of north-east Cordoba, and the Quinto, which flows south-easterly into the lagoons and morasses of southern Cordoba.

The apparently uniform level of the pampas is much broken along its southern margin by the Tandil and Ventana sierras, and by ranges of hills and low mountains in the southern and western parts of the territory of La Pampa.

The basins of the Parana and Paraguay are separated by low mountain ranges extending north from the sierras of Paraguay.

sierras's Meaning':

a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline