chinook

Noun

• large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

• a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

• pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

• 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

• a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  chinook salmon , king salmon , quinnat salmon , Oncorhynchus tshawytscha , Chinookan , Chinook , chinook wind , snow eater