Definitions for cogon

cogon co·gon

Spelling: [koh-gohn]
IPA: /koʊˈgoʊn/

Cogon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in cogon (cgnoo).

Definitions for cogon

noun

  1. a tall, coarse grass, Imperata cylindrica, of the tropics and subtropics, used widely for thatching.

Origin of cogon

1895-1900; Spanish Tagalog kugon

Examples for cogon

The unwooded portions of the table-lands are covered with cogon and similar wild grasses.

The country is fairly open, as there is no thick forest, but only scrub and cogon, or elephant grass.

We have previously stated that the incursion of the cogon grass into the fields makes necessary some new clearings each year.

The latter part of the ride was through a series of small hills covered with cogon grass.

Along the edge of the cogon lands are many large buri palms, from which a starch commercially known as sago is secured.

The command car bucked over hummocks of cogon grass while the boys held on to keep from being tossed out.

A roof of cogon grass protects ten bundles of unthreshed rice, which lie on it.

The cogon grass in this river bottom was the tallest I ever saw, some clumps being well over twenty feet high.

Kinahanglan budlúngun gayud ang kúgun kay lawum ug dulut, You have to really dig out the cogon grass, because it runs deep.

After the framework is complete, one side of the roof is covered with cogon grass, but the other is left incomplete.

Word Value for cogon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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