"vibrissa" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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        "Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds."
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        "(anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals."
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