phytophenomenology

Noun

phytophenomenology (uncountable)

1. The interdisciplinary study of plant intelligence, drawing on phenomenology, botany and population ecology.
   • This article provided no more than the prolegomena to the fruitful interdisciplinary combination of phenomenology, botany and population ecology—an approach we may term phytophenomenology.2012, Michael Marder, “Plant intentionality and the phenomenological framework of plant intelligence”, in Plant Signaling & Behavior, volume 7, number 11, →DOI, page 7
   • This collocation, Marder posits, may have less to do with plants’ actual botanical mysteries and our human investigations into their biological truths and more to do with the ways that they inhabit and make sense of the world, what he calls their ‘phytophenomenology’, an extension of...2018, Katherine E. Bishop, “‘When ‘tis Night, Death is Green’: Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir”, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 22, number 1, →DOI, page 8