chinook 的定义
plural Chi·nooks, Chi·nook.
- a member of a formerly numerous North American Indian people originally inhabiting the northern shore of the mouth of the Columbia River and the adjacent territory.
- either of the two languages of the Chinook Indians.Compare Lower Chinook, Upper Chinook.
- a warm, dry wind that blows at intervals down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
- chinook salmon.
- a U.S. Army cargo helicopter in service since 1962 and capable of ferrying 12 tons of supplies and troops.
chinook 近义词
等同于 wind
等同于 gale
更多chinook例句
- Southern Resident orcas are currently endangered, and their preferred food source, the Chinook salmon, is declining in population.
- The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.
- The note promised to send more pictures “like before,” and included a photograph of a Chinook helicopter unloading supplies.
- Chinook For this crowd, a spelling bee is no matter to be joked about.
- Next he says a double rotor Chinook landed inside the compound.
- Need I add that tum-tum in the Chinook jargon signifies the soul!
- Having made friends, he told me in a mixture of broken English and Chinook some of the old folk lore of his tribe.
- But few of them speak the English language fluently; they mostly talk French and Chinook jargon.
- The idea expressed in English by the sentence I came to give it to her is rendered in Chinook by i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am.
- Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.