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Ponderosa, ponderous or heavy in Latin and Italian, may refer to:

Places

Entertainment

  • Ponderosa, an American Southern rock band
  • Ponderosa, fictional ranch bordering the northeast side of Lake Tahoe in the American television series Bonanza
  • Ponderosa, a title used for reruns of the American television series Bonanza during the summer of 1972
  • Ponderosa (TV series), a 2001-2002 television series that was the prequel to Bonanza
  • The place where the contestants of the television series Survivor go to when they are voted out of the game

Schools

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

  • Alphitonia ponderosa, a species of flowering tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands
  • Casmaria ponderosa, commonly known as the heavy bonnet, a species of large sea snail in the family Cassidae
  • Cincinnatia ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderous siltsnail and ponderous spring snail, a species of small freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, endemic to the United States
  • Leucozonia ponderosa, a species of sea snail in the family Fasciolariidae
  • Mandarina ponderosa, a species of air-breathing land snail in the family Camaenidae, endemic to Japan
  • Oliva ponderosa, a species of sea snail in the family Olividae
  • Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, or western yellow pine, a very large pine tree native to western North America
  • Tillandsia ponderosa, a species of evergreen, perennial, flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia in the family Bromeliaceae, native to Mexico

Other

See also