vibrissa

noun3

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 vibrissae— are placed on each upper lip. — 1881
2. •
   Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
3. •
   [in the plural] A thick hair found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.