facial hair

/ˈfeɪʃəl hɛr/

/ˈfeɪʃəl hɛə/

Definitions of facial hair

1. noun

   hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)
   types:

   beard, face fungus, whiskers

   the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

   moustache, mustache

   an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

   burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn

   facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)

   fuzz

   the first beard of an adolescent boy

   imperial, imperial beard

   a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III

   beaver

   a full beard

   soup-strainer, toothbrush

   slang for a mustache

   handle-bars, moustachio, mustachio

   a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)

   walrus moustache, walrus mustache

   a bushy droopy mustache

   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 the artist Anthony Vandyke)

   Attilio, soul patch

   a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin

   type 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