meerkat vs suricate

meerkat and suricate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
meerkat	Yes	No	No	No
suricate	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, suricate is a hyponym of meerkat; that is, suricate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than meerkat:

meerkat: a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
suricate: burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet

Other hyponyms of meerkat include slender-tailed meerkat, Suricata suricatta, Suricata tetradactyla.

meerkat (noun)	suricate (noun)
a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes	burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet