vibrissa

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vibrissa

/vɪˈbɹɪsə/

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Borrowed from Latin vibrissae.

noun vibrissae

Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat. There are also long hairs inside each ear and sometimes on its tip, and about a dozen very long and strong hairs—the whiskers or vibrissæ— are placed on each upper lip.
Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
in plural A thick hair found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals. The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus. […] Vibrissae are present in most mammals, but their innervation and role in sensory function appears to be less pronounced in humans.
Similar: nose hair

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@misc{vibrissa_2026,
  title = {vibrissa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vibrissa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}