zenik

alternative zenick

1. archaicno pluralThe 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