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ves·ture

 (vĕs′chər)
n.
1. Clothing; apparel.
2. Something that covers or cloaks: hills in a vesture of mist.
tr.v. ves·tured, ves·tur·ing, ves·tures
To cover with vesture; clothe.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, from Latin vestītus, past participle of vestīre, to clothe, from vestis, garment; see vest.]
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Vestured pits and vestured vessel walls (which may be construed so as to include "warts" on the lumen surface) occur in most Brassicales (Fig.
Vestured pits: their occurrence and systematic importance in eudicots.
Vestured pits were found in all species of Fabaceae (Caesalpixiaceae, Mimosaceae, Papilionaceae) and in V.
Transverse section of Eucayptus camaldulnesis wood showing several vestured pit regions (1,4).
Wood anatomy of the Onagraceae: further species; root anatomy; significance of vestured pits and allied structures in dicotyledons.
The inherent taxonomic interest of so many distinctive features in which Stixis resembles Forchhammeria seems clear: successive cambia, ray histology, tracheid presence, vestured pits, and crystal-bearing cells in conjunctive tissue.
The following characters were recorded for each specimen studied: presence/absence of growth rings, porosity, vessels distribution, intervessels pit size, vestured pits, fibre wall thickness, septate fibres, axial parenchyma patterns, number of the cells per axial parenchyma strand, ray size in height and width in cells, composition ray cell, storeyed structure, prismatic crystals, silica bodies, and axial canal, among others characters.
Also, vestured pit membranes are present in fibers of all species examined in this study.
aubrevillei) End wall Simple, walls Simple, walls tranverse perforation transverse to oblique to oblique Intervessel na Alternate, vestured pits Axial Absent Absent; sparse paratracheal Parenchyma (S.