vibrissa

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
  3. A thick hair found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals. in-plural
    — 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.

词形变化

vibrissae plural

词汇关系

衍生词
vibrissal

词源

Etymology tree
Latin vibrissaebor.
English vibrissa
Borrowed from Latin vibrissae.
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