Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
relating to the pineal body;
- Example: "pineal hormone"2.
having the form of a pine cone;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pineal
adj 1: relating to the pineal body; "pineal hormone"
2: having the form of a pine cone