WordNet
pineal eye
n. a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles [syn: third eye]
Usage examples of "pineal eye".
There is even a suggestion that, located at the top of the skull as it is, the pineal eye was directly affected by the sun and could be used as a thermostat to control body heat.
When the arcs of light vanished from the sky, when the gunshot echoes faded, he peeled open his pineal eye.
With his pineal eye he sees his silhouette projected on a screen of incommensurable size.
One had a third, soft pineal eye, exposed and raw, weeping constantly in the center of his forehead.