Wiktionary:Word of the day/2023/August 20

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Word of the day
for August 20
coenobium n
  1. A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
  2. (by extension)
    1. (botany) 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.
    2. (botany) A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe.
    3. (zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism.

Bernard of Clairvaux, an abbot who was one of the founders of the Cistercian Order of monks and nuns, died on this day 870 years ago in 1153.

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