midcry

noun

midcry

noun

Etymology From mid- + cry.

1

A point in time during a cry.

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.2009 March 1, Jonathan Rosen, “The Fledgling Ornithologist”, in New York Times:

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