"chinooks" in the noun sense
1. chinook, chinook wind, snow eater
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
2. Chinook
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
3. chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon
pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
4. Chinookan, Chinook
a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
5. chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
large Pacific salmon valued as food adults die after spawning
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