wur-weed

English translation: coined by author

08:44 Jan 12, 2018
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Science - Botany
English term or phrase: wur-weed
She was standing inertly, picking apart a stalk of #wur-weed#, her face white.
--quoted from Martian Time-Slip (1964, Si-Fi fiction) by Philip K. Dick (link: https://www.google.com.hk/search?safe=strict&hl=zh-CN&tbm=bk...

"She" was living on the Mars, as we know, an arid planet. Was "wur-weed" coined by the author? If yes, where did "wur" come from?
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updownK
China
Local time: 09:59
Selected answer:coined by author
Explanation:
There are no references at all to “wur-weed” or “wur” on Google apart from this question, this quotation and one person who has adopted “wur” as a pseudonym. So “wur” must have been coined by the author, entirely his own invention. I don’t know why he has plants growing on Mars, I would have thought its lack of plant life must have been known even as long ago as 1964.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:59
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coined by author


Explanation:
There are no references at all to “wur-weed” or “wur” on Google apart from this question, this quotation and one person who has adopted “wur” as a pseudonym. So “wur” must have been coined by the author, entirely his own invention. I don’t know why he has plants growing on Mars, I would have thought its lack of plant life must have been known even as long ago as 1964.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:59
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you! Besides plants, PHD even imagined there was a race of aliens on Mars.

Asker: I mean PKD.


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agree  Yvonne Gallagher
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agree  philgoddard
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agree  acetran
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