Noun
-
large Pacific salmon valued as food
adults die after spawning
- chinook salmon - king salmon - quinnat salmon - oncorhynchus tshawytscha -
a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
- chinookan -
pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
- chinook salmon - king 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
- chinook wind - snow eater