Noun chinook has 5 senses
  1. chinook, chinook wind, snow eater - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
    --1 is a kind of wind, air current, current of air
  2. Chinook - 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
    --2 is a kind of
    Penutian
  3. chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
    --3 is a kind of salmon
    --3 is a part of
     chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Onchorynchus tshawtscha
  4. Chinookan, Chinook - a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook people
    --4 is a kind of Penutian
  5. chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Onchorynchus tshawtscha - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
    --5 is a kind of salmon
    --5 is a member of Onchorynchus, genus Onchorynchus
    --5 has parts: chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon
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