zenik
See also: ženik
English
Alternative forms
- zenick
Etymology
Unknown, likely from a native African name.
Noun
zenik (plural not attested)
- (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.
- 1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions (page 107)
Anagrams
- zinke