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“The timing couldn’t be worse because our baby chinooks are coming out of the river,” she says.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2017

Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were as big or bigger than ordinary chinooks, and their quick growth had saved them from a full year of ocean hazards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those winds which sweep down from the heights of the Rocky Mountains and quickly melt the snows are known as "chinooks."

From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)

From their summits the grey-green up-tilted limestone protruded, whipped clean of soil by the chinooks of centuries.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.