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What is a chinook?

What is a chinook? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The chinook generally blows from the southwest, but its direction may be modified by topography. When it sets in after a spell of intense cold, the temperature may rise by 20–40°F in 15 minutes due to replacement of a cold air mass with a much warmer air mass in minutes.
  2. The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
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The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs.
Each run of Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, pink, and chum salmon knows how to survive in a specific spawning stream.
To begin with, the orcas' main prey, chinook salmon, are themselves listed as threatened in Puget Sound.
Conservation groups want to preserve one of the best remaining chinook salmon and steelhead runs in the West.
Similar geography produces an excess of positive over negative ions in Canada's chinook winds.
The plankton blooms began to occur a couple of weeks early, and the chinook promptly disappeared from our usual winter spots.

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