Usually means: Colony of coordinated unicellular organisms.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (coenobium)

noun:  A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (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.
noun:  (botany) A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe.
noun:  (zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism.

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