Word Origin & History. epicene mid-15c., originally a grammatical term for nouns that may denote either gender, from L. epicoenus common, from Gk. Extended sense of characteristic of both sexes first recorded in English c.1600; that of effeminate 1630s.
A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. Equivalent conditions are that opposite sides are of equal length; that opposite angles are equal; or that the diagonals bisect each other. Parallelograms also include the square, rectangle, rhombus and rhomboid. Rectangle: all four angles are right angles. 2  An equivalent condition is that the diagonals bisect each other and are equal in length. 3  Informally: a box or oblong (including a square). 4  Square (regular quadrilateral): all four sides are of equal length (equilateral), and all four angles are right angles.
Notice that we use quadrilateral in our definition of rectangles. We could have also said that a rectangle is a parallelogram with four right angles, since and quadrilateral with four right angles is also a parallelogram (because their opposite sides would be parallel).