zenikEtymologyUnknown, likely from a native African name.zenik means the meerkat or suricate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounThe 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.”