coenobium.
A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
Meaning & usage
A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
A fruit of a plant from either of the families Boraginaceae (the borages) or Lamiaceae which has small loculi or compartments, reminiscent of the cells in a convent or monastery.
A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe.
A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Late Latin coenobium (“cloister, convent; monastery”), from Koine Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “life in community; monastery”), the neuter form of κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”). Doublet of coenoby. The plural form coenobia is borrowed from Late Latin coenobia.
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