chinook

English Thesaurus

1. large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	salmon,
definition	:	any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon,
definition	:	pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus oncorhynchus, oncorhynchus,
definition	:	Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon (noun.animal)

2. a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	penutian,
definition	:	a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California (noun.communication)

3. pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon (noun.food)

hypernym	:	salmon,
definition	:	flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae (noun.food)

part meronym	:	chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon,
definition	:	large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning (noun.animal)

4. 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 (noun.person)

hypernym	:	penutian,
definition	:	a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages (noun.person)

5. a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	air current, current of air, wind,
definition	:	air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure (noun.phenomenon)

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