CHINOOK

noun (plural ~ or ~s) Etymology: Lower Chehalis (Salishan language of western Washington) c̓inúk, name of a ~ village Date: 1795 a member of an American Indian people of the north shore of the Columbia River at its mouth, a ~an language of the ~ and other nearby peoples, 3. often not capitalized a warm moist southwest wind of the coast from Oregon northward, a warm dry wind that descends the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, chinook salmon