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pineal

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pin·e·al  (pn-l, pn-)
adj.
1. Having the form of a pine cone.
2. Of or relating to the pineal body.
[French pinéal, from Latin pnea, pine cone, from feminine of pneus, of pine, from pnus, pine tree; see pei- in Indo-European roots.]
pineal [ˈpɪnɪəl paɪˈniːəl]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) resembling a pine cone
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) of or relating to the pineal gland
[via French from Latin pīnea pine cone]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pineal - relating to the pineal body; "pineal hormone"
2.pineal - having the form of a pine cone
rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
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After making the greatest opposition between thought and extension, Descartes, like Plato, supposes them to be reunited for a time, not in their own nature but by a special divine act (compare Phaedrus), and he also supposes all the parts of the human body to meet in the pineal gland, that alone affording a principle of unity in the material frame of man.
Meno by Plato View in context
A good deal more than a year ago, before anything was known of Lydgate's skill, the judgments on it had naturally been divided, depending on a sense of likelihood, situated perhaps in the pit of the stomach or in the pineal gland, and differing in its verdicts, but not the less valuable as a guide in the total deficit of evidence.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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