What is "rhotic"

a. 1 (context of an English accent English) Pronouncing the letter ''r'' wherever it appears, as in ''bar'' ((IPAchar: /bɑːɹ/)) and ''bard'' or ''barred'' ((IPAchar: /bɑːɹd/)). 2 (context of a phoneme English) Having the quality of the said letter. This includes the sounds of the IPA symbols /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/, and some would say /r/, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored%20vowel.

In linguistics, rhotic may refer to:

• Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the sound in red
• R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur
  • Erhua , a phonological process that adds R-coloring in Mandarin Chinese
• Rhoticity in English, English accents that keep or lose it in some cases