cogon

English

cogon (Imperata cylindrica)

Etymology

From Spanish cogón, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tagalog and Cebuano 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, alang-alang
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Translations to be checked

• Fijian: ^{(please verify)} gi (fj), ^{(please verify)} ngi
• French: ^{(please verify)} paille de dys, ^{(please verify)} paillotte, ^{(please verify)} impérata cylindrique, ^{(please verify)} impérate
• (deprecated template usage) Lao: (yakha)
• (deprecated template usage) Mandarin: (Bai Mao Gen)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Palauan: ^{(please verify)} kasoring
• (deprecated template usage) Sinhalese: (illuk)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cotranh

References

• Imperata cylindrica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Imperata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Template:commonslite
• Imperata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Congo, congo