Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chinook

5 senses of chinook

Sense 1
chinook, chinook wind, snow eater -- (a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies)
       => wind, air current, current of air -- (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")

Sense 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 tribes)
       => Penutian -- (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)

Sense 3
chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon -- (pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon)
       => salmon -- (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)

Sense 4
Chinookan, Chinook -- (a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook)
       => Penutian -- (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)

Sense 5
chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha -- (large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning)
       => salmon -- (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)