chinook in English
- chinook⇄adj. of or resembling the type of weather which follows a chinook.
Ex. the chinook season, chinook days. - chinook⇄chinook orChinook salmon
the largest species of Pacific salmon, important as a food fish; quinnat salmon. - chinook⇄chinook, noun, adjective.
- Chinook⇄Chinook, noun, pl.-nookor-nooks.
1. a member of a group of American Indian tribes living along the Columbia River in the northwestern United States, including the Lower Chinook and several extinct tribes classed as Upper Chinook.
2. the langu - chinook⇄noun 1. a warm, moist wind blowing from the sea to land in winter and spring in the northwestern United States.
2. a warm, dry wind that comes down the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, especially in Montana and Wyoming.
3. chinook salm