facial hair

facial (“of or on the face”, adjective) + hair (“pigmented keratinaceous growth”, noun)

facial hair (uncountable)

1. Hair on the face of a human, such as the eyebrows of a man or woman or the androgenic hair (beard or moustache) of a man.
   • 1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post:

     Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.

   • 2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198:

     The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".

   • 2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest‎, page 152:

     Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking.

   • 2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 134:

     Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible

2. Hair on the face of an animal.