yellow Sally

English

Noun

yellow Sally (plural yellow Sallys or yellow Sallies)

1. (fishing) A greenish or yellowish European stonefly of the family Chloroperlidae.
2. A critically endangered stonefly (Isogenus nubecula), presumed extinct in the UK after 1995 but rediscovered in 2017.

References

• “yellow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.