Known But Not Familiar Words

I always put it around my nostrils, I answer when she asks me where I put my Vicks. Then in my half-sleep I notice how strange the word sounds, "nostrils." Words not often said wander in the woods without trails. Something like nose, I know that word even though it's not every day. Nostrils, the appendage feature, like the nomenclature of insect parts. In my half-sleep about to slip into dream my facetious mind knows how linked here on earth to parts of strange beasts.