whisker

whisker

(wĭs′kər, hwĭs′-)

n.

1.

a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.

b. A single hair of a beard or mustache.

2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.

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whisk′ered, whisk′er·y adj.

A component of a box plot representing data, which corresponds to a specified distance above or below a median; depending on the population being analysed, data points beyond whiskers are statistical outliers

whisker

see VIBRISSA.