midcry

English

Etymology

mid- +‎ cry

Noun

midcry (uncountable)

1. A point in time during a cry.
   • 2009 March 1, Jonathan Rosen, “The Fledgling Ornithologist”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry.