SOLUTION: What is the most descriptive name for a quadrilateral that has all of its sides congruent?

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Question 403017: What is the most descriptive name for a quadrilateral that has all of its sides congruent?
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Rhombus.

There are two types of quadrilaterals with congruent sides, rhombi and squares. But a square is a special case of a rhombus, namely a rhombus with right angled vertices. Therefore the term square only describes a certain subset of quadrilaterals with congruent sides, but rhombus describes all of them.

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