cogon

English

cogon (Imperata cylindrica)

Etymology

From Spanish cogón, from Tagalog and Visayan kugon

Noun

cogon (countable and uncountable; plural cogons)

1. Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially Imperata cylindrica.

Synonyms

• cogon grass, cogongrass (US), satintail, cotton wool grass, silver spike (southern Africa), speargrass (Nigeria), blady grass (Australia)

Translations

Imperata

• Malay: lalang (ms), alang-alang (ms)

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• Mandarin: (Bai Mao Gen)
• Fijian: gi , ngi,
• French: paille de dys, paillotte, impérata cylindrique, impérate
• Lao: (yakha)

• Palauan: kasoring
• Sinhalese: (illuk)
• Vietnamese: cotranh

See also

• Imperata cylindrica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Imperata cylindrica
• Imperata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Imperata
• Imperata cylindrica on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Imperata cylindrica
• Imperata on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Imperata

Anagrams

• Congo