Usually means: Sensitive hair, usually on mammals.
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  1. vibrissa: Merriam-Webster
  2. vibrissa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vibrissa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vibrissa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vibrissa: Vocabulary.com
  6. vibrissa: Wordnik
  7. vibrissa: Wiktionary
  8. vibrissa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vibrissa: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. vibrissa: Dictionary.com
  11. Vibrissa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Vibrissa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. vibrissa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. vibrissa: Rhymezone
  15. Vibrissa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. vibrissa: FreeDictionary.org
  17. vibrissa: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. vibrissa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. vibrissa: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vibrissa: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. vibrissa: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vibrissa: Medical dictionary

(Note: See vibrissae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vibrissa)

noun:  Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat.
noun:  Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
noun:  (anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.

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