vibrissa

plural vibrissae

1. 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.

   1881, St George Jackson Mivart, The Cat, London: Murray, page 14

2. Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
3. in pluralanatomyA 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.

   2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base, Thieme, →ISBN

   Synonyms: nose hair