Usually means: Opening for air in nose.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word nostril:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nostril: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nostril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nostril: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nostril: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nostril: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nostril, nostril: Wordnik
  7. nostril: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nostril, Nostril, Nostril, Nostril, Nostril, Nostril: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. nostril: Wiktionary
  10. nostril: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nostril: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nostril: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nostril: Dictionary.com
  14. nostril: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nostril: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Nostril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nostril: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nostril: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nostril: Rhymezone
  20. Nostril: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. nostril: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. nostril: Free Dictionary
  23. nostril: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nostril: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nostril: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nostril: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. nostril: Medical dictionary
  5. Nostril: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nostril: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nostriling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

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