zenick

Noun

zenik (plural not attested)

1. (archaic, no plural) The meerkat or suricate.
   • 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.1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions, page 107