Meaning of vestiture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
   countable, uncountable
2. Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
   countable, rare, uncountable
3. Clothes, clothing.
   archaic, countable, literary, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.”

“Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.”

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