Welshman's button

British

noun

an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In the Alder the anterior wings are smooth, broad and strong, in the Welshman’s Button they are covered with hairs and narrow.

From Project Gutenberg

A fishery that gave poor and diminishing results, even with the Mayfly, sedge, and Welshman's button, was not suitable for dry-fly experts, and the Ramsbury experiment was abandoned.

From Project Gutenberg

Here are my trout, and I got every one of them with the small fly—Welshman's button—before one o'clock.

From Project Gutenberg

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023