Index: wp-includes/taxonomy.php
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--- wp-includes/taxonomy.php	(revision 5624)
+++ wp-includes/taxonomy.php	(working copy)
@@ -466,6 +466,15 @@
 function &get_terms($taxonomies, $args = '') {
 	global $wpdb;
 
+	$defaults = array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
+		'hide_empty' => true, 'exclude' => '', 'include' => '',
+		'number' => '', 'fields' => 'all', 'slug' => '', 'parent' => '',
+		'hierarchical' => true, 'child_of' => 0, 'get' => '');
+	$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
+
+    if ( !empty($args['type']) )
+        $taxonomies = $args['type'];
+
 	$single_taxonomy = false;
 	if ( !is_array($taxonomies) ) {
 		$single_taxonomy = true;
@@ -473,12 +482,7 @@
 	}
 
 	$in_taxonomies = "'" . implode("', '", $taxonomies) . "'";
-
-	$defaults = array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
-		'hide_empty' => true, 'exclude' => '', 'include' => '',
-		'number' => '', 'fields' => 'all', 'slug' => '', 'parent' => '',
-		'hierarchical' => true, 'child_of' => 0, 'get' => '');
-	$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
+    
 	$args['number'] = (int) $args['number'];
 	if ( !$single_taxonomy || !is_taxonomy_hierarchical($taxonomies[0]) ||
 		'' != $args['parent'] ) {
@@ -493,6 +497,7 @@
 	}
 	extract($args);
 
+
 	if ( $child_of ) {
 		$hierarchy = _get_term_hierarchy($taxonomies[0]);
 		if ( !isset($hierarchy[$child_of]) )
@@ -862,4 +867,4 @@
 	}
 }
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>