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om·ni·um-gath·er·um  audio  (mn-m-gr-m) KEY 

NOUN:
A miscellaneous collection; a hodgepodge.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin omnium, genitive pl. of omnis, all; see op- in Indo-European roots + gatherum (mock-Latinate alteration of gather)


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