chinook in English

noun

1

a member of an American Indian people originally inhabiting the region around the lower Columbia River in Oregon and Washington.

In the language of the native Chinook , ‘mima ‘does refer to death or burial.’

2

the language of the Chinook.

Apparently not, because another local citizen served as a translator into Chinook , the trade language of the Puget Sound tribes, and an Indian in turn translated into the local tongue.

adjective

1

relating to the Chinook or their language.

Even Lewis and Clark, returning through the Cascades in 1806, stopped at a nearly deserted Chinook village where they met an old woman ‘badly marked with the Small Pox’, who remained there still.

noun

1

a warm dry wind that blows down the east side of the Rocky Mountains at the end of winter.

In Alberta, Canada, those complaints revolve around chinooks , the warm winds that sweep the area during winter.

2

a large North Pacific salmon that is an important commercial food fish.

Its year-round fishing was about as good as it gets - until three prime species ended up listed under the Endangered Species Act (coho salmon, chinook salmon and steelhead).

noun

chinook salmon, king salmon

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