chinook

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chinook /tʃɪˈnuːk, -nʊk, ʃɪ-/

▶noun

• 1 (also chinook wind) a warm, dry wind which blows down the east side of the Rocky Mountains at the end of winter.

• 2 (also chinook salmon) a large North Pacific salmon which is an important commercial food fish. [Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.]

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Chinook /tʃɪˈnuːk, -ˈnʊk, ʃɪ-/

▶noun (pl. same or Chinooks)

• 1 a member of an American Indian people originally inhabiting the region around the Columbia River in Oregon.

• 2 the extinct Penutian language of the Chinook.

– origin from Salish tsinúk.