Usually means: Speech impediment involving the letter R.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhotacism: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhotacism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rhotacism: Wordnik
  4. rhotacism: Wiktionary
  5. rhotacism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. rhotacism: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. rhotacism: Dictionary.com
  8. rhotacism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Rhotacism (disambiguation), Rhotacism (sound change), Rhotacism (speech impediment), Rhotacism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rhotacism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rhotacism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Rhotacism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rhotacism: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rhotacism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. rhotacism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhotacism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. rhotacism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhotacism: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (rhotacism)

noun:  An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.
noun:  (countable, phonology) A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R; rhotacization.
noun:  The inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.

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