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vestiture
/ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/
noun 3
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2ADJ.
adolescent, vivid, whitish
VERB + VESTITURE
celebrate
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noun
1
The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
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.
2
Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
3
Clothes, clothing.
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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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.
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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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