'chinnook salmon' definitions:
Definition of 'chinnook salmon'
From: GCIDE
- Quinnat \Quin"nat\, n. [From the native name.] (Zool.) The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance. [Written also quinnet.] [1913 Webster]