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pineal

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Adjective

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pin=e=al

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective pineal has 2 senses

pineal(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to the pineal body; "pineal hormone"

pineal(s = adj.all) Array - having the form of a pine cone; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pineal, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pinéale.].

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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pineal, adj. shaped like a pine cone.

Idiom

pineal body (or gland) a pea-sized conical mass of tissue behind the third ventricle of the brain, secreting a hormone-like substance in some mammals.

Etymology

F pin{eacute}al f. L pinea pine cone: see PINE(1)

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