vibrisse

Learned borrowing from Latin vībrissae.

• IPA^(key): /vi.bʁis/

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vibrisse f (plural vibrisses)

1. (anatomy, ornithology) vibrissa (any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat; any similar feather near the mouth of some birds)

• vibrer

• “vibrisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vibrisse f

1. plural of vibrissa