Midcry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A point in time during a cry. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mid- + cry.

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