CHINOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinook mean? 

• CHINOOK (noun)
  The noun CHINOOK has 5 senses:

1. a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

2. 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

3. pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

4. a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

5. large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

  Familiarity information: CHINOOK used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

chinook; chinook wind; snow eater

Hypernyms ("chinook" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chinook" is a kind of...):

Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chinook; chinook salmon; king salmon

Hypernyms ("chinook" is a kind of...):

salmon (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)

Holonyms ("chinook" is a part of...):

chinook; chinook salmon; king salmon; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; quinnat salmon (large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Chinook; Chinookan

Hypernyms ("Chinook" is a kind of...):

Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chinook; chinook salmon; king salmon; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; quinnat salmon

Hypernyms ("chinook" is a kind of...):

salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)

Meronyms (parts of "chinook"):

chinook; chinook salmon; king salmon (pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon)

Holonyms ("chinook" is a member of...):

genus Oncorhynchus; Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon)