Chinook Synonyms

shĭ-no͝ok', chĭ-

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Synonyms for Chinook

chinook-wind
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
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chinook-salmon
Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, the largest species in the Pacific salmon family.
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Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
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chinookan
A North American Indian language family of Washington and Oregon.
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snow-eater
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
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foehn
A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
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Chinook Sentence Examples

  • These winds are known as Chinook winds.

  • In the west the climate is generally delightful, it being there greatly affected by the warm, dry " Chinook " wind which blows from the Pacific Ocean; to some extent the wind modifies the temperature nearly to the eastern border.

  • In 1906 sugar refineries were projected at Hamilton, Kalispell, Chinook, Laurel, Missoula, Dillon and Great Falls; and in 1907 the crop was so large that 12,000 freight cars were needed to carry it and the railways had a car and coal " famine."

  • The descending winds on the eastern slopes of the ranges are frequently warm and dry, to the point of resembling the Fhn winds of the Alps; such winds are known in the Cordilleran region as Chinook winds.

  • Chinook helicopters from 18 Squadron were deployed to assist with troop and load carrying, particularly for the building of radar stations.

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