| Noun | 1. | chinook - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockiesair current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" | |
| 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 tribesPenutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages | |
| 3. | chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmonsalmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae | |
| 4. | Chinook - a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook peoplePenutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California | |
| 5. | chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawningsalmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn | |