vestiture

noun3

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. — 2013
2. •
   (rare) Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
3. •
   (literary, no longer used) Clothes, clothing.

   • Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts. — 1972