rhotic

adjective

🔊/ˈrəʊtɪk/

(phonetics语音学)

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(of an accent口音) pronouncing the /r/ after a vowel in words like car, early, etc. General American and Scottish accents are rhotic.r 化的；r 类音的Topics Languagec2
Word Origin1960s: from Greek rhot-, stem of rho (see rho) + -ic.