Definition of Pinal
Pi"ne*al (?), 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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- In the shape of a pine cone.
- Pertaining to the pineal gland.
- The pineal gland.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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