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Alfilaria
Alfilaria Al*fil`a*ri"a, n. (Bot.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Alfileria
Alfileria Al*fil`e*ri"a, Alfilerilla Al*fil`e*ril"la, n. [Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin.] Same as Alfilaria.
Alfilerilla
Alfileria Al*fil`e*ri"a, Alfilerilla Al*fil`e*ril"la, n. [Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin.] Same as Alfilaria.

Meaning of Alfil from wikipedia

- The pil, alfil, alpil, or elephant is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical...
- Operation Bishop (Spanish: Operativo Alfil) was the Argentine contribution to the coalition forces from around 42 nations led by the United States in...
- Rukh ("chariot"; from Persian رخ rokh) moves like the rook in chess. Pīl, alfil, aufin, and similar ("elephant"; from Persian پيل pīl; al- is the Arabic...
- bishop is still called alfil (from al fil, with the article) in Spanish. Due to the piece's change in movement, the ferz and the alfil are now considered...
- of alfil survive in the languages of the two countries where chess was first introduced within Western Europe—Italian (alfiere) and Spanish (alfil). It...
- diagonal, but allowing them to "jump" (seen in the fairy chess piece the alfil); and the earliest versions of queens could only move a single square diagonally...
- refer to: Pil, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran Pil (chess), or alfil, a fairy chess piece Pil (placename) a Welsh placename element Carlos Miguel...
- checkmate in several languages. Several languages use the Arabic loanword alfil for the piece called bishop in English; in this context it is a chess-specific...
- Orthodox pieces Bishop King Knight Pawn Queen Rook Fairy pieces (List) Alfil Amazon Berolina pawn Camel Dabbaba Empress Ferz Giraffe Gr****hopper Mann...
- sometimes referred to as Operation Desert Calm[citation needed] Operativo Alfil was the Argentine name for Argentine military activities[citation needed]...