sensory hair

1. 1.

   a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

   Synonymswhiskervibrissa

   Broaderhair

Questions about sensory hair

What does sensory hair mean?

sensory hair means "a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat".

What is another word for sensory hair?

Close synonyms include whisker, vibrissa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sensory hair a common word?

sensory hair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.