coenobium

noun4

1. •
   A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.

   • [A]fter I had passed thirty years living in a coenobium, I rejoice that I have also spent twenty more, so that I can never be accused of sloth among those who tried it in a half-hearted way. — 1894
2. •
   A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe.
3. •
   A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism.
4. •
   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.

   • Comfrey fruit is a coenobium consisting not of two (in carpel number) but four monospermous eremes. Eremes are not opened and seed not released from pericarp falls from the plant. — 2009