WHISKERS
Dictionary entry overview: What does whiskers mean?
• WHISKERS (noun)
The noun WHISKERS has 1 sense:
1. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
Familiarity information: WHISKERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WHISKERS (noun)
Meaning:
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
beard; face fungus; whiskers
Hypernyms ("whiskers" is a kind of...):
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
Meronyms (parts of "whiskers"):
moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiskers"):
fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)
imperial; imperial beard (a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III)
beaver (a full beard)
burnside; mutton chop; side-whiskers; sideburn (beard grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off))
goatee (a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard)
stubble (short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days)
vandyke; vandyke beard (a short pointed beard (named after Anthony Vandyke))
Holonyms ("whiskers" is a part of...):
adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
