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chi·nook  (sh-nk, ch-)

n.

1. A moist warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.

2. A warm dry wind that descends from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature.

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[Short for Chinook wind.]

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Chinook

Noun

1. pl -nook or -nooks a member of a Native American people of the Pacific coast of N America

2. the language of this people

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chinook  (sh-nk, ch-)

1. A moist, warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.

2. A warm, dry wind descending from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature. These winds often melt snow quite rapidly, at times at a rate of up to a foot per hour. See also foehn.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	chinook - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies chinook wind, snow eater air 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 tribes Penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
	3.	chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon chinook salmon, king salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	4.	Chinook - a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook Chinookan Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
	5.	chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon