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See also: ✝ [U+271D LATIN CROSS], ✞ [U+271E SHADOWED WHITE LATIN CROSS], and ✟ [U+271F OUTLINED LATIN CROSS]

Translingual

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1. Died, dead.

   Joseph Smith, †1956

2. (typography) Second footnote.
3. (biology, linguistics) Extinct.
4. (botany) Used to indicated a destroyed type specimen.
   • 1986, Jeffrey, C., Kew Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 906:

     "Type: Zaire, Ruwenzori, Butago valley, Mildbraed 2575 (holotype B†; isotype BR)."

5. (cricket) Used in scorecards to indicate the wicketkeeper.
6. (chess notation) Check.

Synonyms

• (check): +

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