yellow Sally
English
Noun
yellow Sally (plural yellow Sallys or yellow Sallies)
- (fishing) A greenish or yellowish European stonefly of the genus Chloroperla.
- A critically endangered stonefly, Isogenus nubecula, presumed extinct in the UK after 1995 but rediscovered in 2017.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for yellow Sally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)