chinook

Meanings

1. The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
2. The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

1. A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington.
2. Chinook Jargon, a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest composed primarily of words from Chinook proper, English, and French, with some borrowings from other languages.
3. A city, the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States.
4. The Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

1. A member of a Native American people whose traditional tribal grounds were along the lower and middle Columbia River.
2. Alternative letter-case form of chinook

Etymology

Borrowed from Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (“the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia River”).