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nouna Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
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nounpink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
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nouna warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
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nounlarge Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawningtype of:
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nouna member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribestype of:
Definition that contains chinook
- chinook a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
- chinookan a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
- genus oncorhynchus Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon
- oncorhynchus Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon
- chinook jargon a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America
- oregon jargon a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America