0 a warm, dry wind that blows from the mountains over the flatter land to the east in western North America:
1 a fish that is a large type of salmon (= fish that live both in the sea and in rivers, and swim up rivers to produce their eggs):
It is a chinook, a wind that races down the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
In Colorado the wind is called a chinook, blowing off the mountains.
A Canadian study recently demonstrated a link between chinooks and the onset of migraines.
Chinook are native to the North Pacific Ocean and the river systems of western North America.
The orcas like to eat salmon, particularly chinooks.
The Yuba River supports the largest run of wild chinook salmon in the state.
These areas have snowy but mild winters due to the warming effect of chinook winds, and cool summers due to their high elevation.
