See also: ✝ [U+271D LATIN CROSS],
✞ [U+271E SHADOWED WHITE LATIN CROSS], and ✟ [U+271F OUTLINED LATIN CROSS]
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† (English symbol name dagger or obelus)
- Died, dead.
Joseph Smith, †1956- Joseph Smith, died in 1956
- (typography) Used to indicate a (second) footnote.
- (biology, linguistics) Extinct.
- (botany) Used to indicated a destroyed type specimen.
1986, Charles Jeffrey, “The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV”, in Kew Bulletin, volume 41, number 4 (in English), →DOI, page 906:"Type: Zaire, Ruwenzori, Butago valley, Mildbraed 2575 (holotype B†; isotype BR)."
- (cricket) Used in scorecards to indicate the wicketkeeper.
- (chess notation) Check.
- Synonym: +
- (textual criticism, palaeography) crux critica, crux desperationis, used around a corrupt part of a text
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