zenik

• zenick

Unknown, likely from a native African name.

zenik (plural not attested)

1. (archaic) The meerkat or suricate.
   • 1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions (page 107)

     The enormous elephant, the tall giraffe, and the stately ostrich, being found in the same spot with a species of mouse, called the black-streaked, weighing only a quarter of an ounce; the zenik, an animal only three inches in height; and the creeper, a bird not much larger than a cherry.

• zinke