midcry

English

Etymology

From 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:

     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.