laura (Murray: lo.ra)(IPA: 'l:r).
Christian Antiq. [Gr. laura, lane, passage, alley.] An aggregation of detached cells, tenanted by recluse monks under a superior, in Egypt and the desert country near the Jordan.

1727-52 in CHAMBERS Cycl. 1819 SOUTHEY in Q. Rev. XXII. 66 Like one of the eastern Lauras-an assemblage of separate cells, each inhabited by a recluse. 1845 PETRIE Eccl. Archit. Irel. 425 These [separate cells] formed a Laura, like the habitations of the Egyptian ascetics. 1871 FARRAR Witn. Hist. v. 170 It would have perished in some lonely laura of desert cenobites.

Woohoo! I am officially defined in relation to reclusiveness!

Now I just need to go into cell biology and term some cellular aggregation a laura, and be all antiquatedly cross referencing and dorky.