chinook   (TTS Sound)

The noun chinook has 5 senses

• chinook, chinook wind, snow eater -- (a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies)


• 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)


• chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon -- (pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon)


• Chinookan, Chinook -- (a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook)


• chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha -- (large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning)