chinook

noun2

1. •
   The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
2. •
   (US, Canada) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.

   • Bije was a grim man, lean and hard as jerked buffalo beef,with hair and beard the colour of melting snow in a chinook. — 1950

noun1

1. •
   A member of a Native American people whose traditional tribal grounds were along the lower and middle Columbia River.

   • The Chinook sent a hunting party to the south.