| 单词 | cogon grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmascogon grass More fully cogon grass. A tall perennial rhizomatous grass, Imperata cylindrica, native to southwest Asia and found worldwide as an invasive weed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Asian grasses cogon1839 mand1862 illuk1864 spear-grass1864 zoysia1965 1839 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 259 An undulating country, pretty well inhabited, but with a very unkindly soil, which is thoroughly overrun by the Cogon. 1888 W. von Landau Trav. 70 The houses are built of caña (cane) and poles, covered with cogon (grass). 1922 E. Huntington et al. Business Geogr. xii. 165 In the Philippines about 48,000 square miles..are covered with tough cogon grass 5 or 6 feet in height. 1961 J. Toland But not in Shame i. i. 12 The flat field, rimmed only by a few trees and waist-high cogon grass, was honeycombed with revetments, foxholes and slit trenches. 1999 M. R. Henson Comfort Woman vi. 67 We passed coconut farms and cogon fields. 2009 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 29 June b1 Highly flammable Cogon grass is becoming a fire hazard in South Georgia. < as lemmas |
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