cogon

English

cogon (Imperata cylindrica)

Etymology

From Spanish cogón, from 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), illuk, satintail, cotton wool grass, silver spike (southern Africa), speargrass (Nigeria), blady grass (Australia)

Translations

Imperata

• Cebuano: cogon
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} цр́вен ба́рон m (cŕven báron)
• Malay: lalang (ms), alang-alang
• Vietnamese: cỏ tranh

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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 (fr), ^{(please verify)} impérata cylindrique, ^{(please verify)} impérate
• Lao: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (yakha)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} bai mao gen
• Palauan: ^{(please verify)} kasoring
• Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} [script needed] (illuk)

References

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

Anagrams

• Congo, congo