Found 2 items, similar to Pineal.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pineal
pineal
adj 1: relating to the pineal body;
“pineal hormone”
2: having the form of a pine cone
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pineal
Pineal
\Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus
of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin['e]ale.]
Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
[1913 Webster]
Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the
third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also
pineal body,
epiphysis,
conarium. In some animals it
is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal
eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant
of a dorsal median eye.
[1913 Webster]