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Medical Definition of Coenobium

1. Colony of cells formed by certain green algae, in which little or no specialisation of the cells occurs. The cells are often embedded in a mucilaginous matrix. Examples: Volvox, Pandorina. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coenobium

Literary usage of Coenobium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Sir William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"Monasterium," he save, may be the dwelling of a «ingle monk, •' coenobium " must be of several ; the former word, he adds, expresses only the place, ..."

2. Fresh-water Algae of the United States: (exclusive of the Diatomaceae by Francis Wolle (1887)
"coenobium globose, hollow within, formed of a single stratum of green cells, primarily globose ; later the coenobium appears ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"Thus the Council in Trullo enjoined a sojourn of some time in a coenobium as the preliminary to life in the desert (Cone. Trull. 092 AD c. 41). ..."

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