botanicalssuch

Botanicalssuch is a neologism used in some speculative or fictional contexts to denote a systematic approach to studying and cataloging botanical substances and their properties. In this imagined framework, plant-derived chemicals, extracts, and products are treated as discrete data points with standardized descriptions that can be organized and compared across species and contexts.

The term blends botanical with a suffix suggestive of exemplarity or suchness, and it is not an established term in mainstream science. In practice, a botanicalssuch framework would draw on elements of phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, and ethnobotany, while employing controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and quantitative measurement to enable cross-disciplinary analysis.

Within fiction or theoretical discourse, a botanicalssuch catalog might document properties such as chemical structures, biosynthesis, ecological roles, traditional uses, regulatory status, and potential applications in medicine, cosmetics, or industry. Real-world disciplines provide the closest analogues: phytochemistry studies plant compounds; pharmacognosy investigates their pharmacological effects; ethnobotany records cultural uses.

Because botanicalssuch is not widely adopted, there is no formal methodology or consensus about its scope or standards. Critics may view it as duplicative of existing fields, while proponents see value in a unifying terminology that promotes data interoperability across plant sciences.

See also: botany, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, plant taxonomy, plant secondary metabolites.