chinook
Nouns
- (n) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies chinook wind, snow eater,
- (n) a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
- (n) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon chinook salmon, king salmon,
- (n) a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook Chinookan,
- (n) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon,