Vibrissa

Vibrissa Meanings:

• One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man
• The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds
• (anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.
• vibrissa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• [slang] The hairs that grow inside our nostrils.