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chinooks

chinooks is the plural of chinook.

Meaning of chinook

Noun

chinook (plural chinooks)

  1. (Canada, US) 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, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107
  2. The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

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Noun capitalized: Chinooks

Chinooks

  1. (plural) plural of Chinook

Questions about chinooks

What is chinooks the plural of?
Chinooks is the plural of chinook.
What part of speech is chinooks?
Chinooks is a noun.

Words near chinooks in the dictionary

  1. chinook salmons
  2. Chinook State
  3. Chinookan
  4. Chinookanist
  5. Chinookanists
  6. chinooks
  7. chinos
  8. Chinovela
  9. Chinovelas
  10. chinovnik
  11. chinovniks

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