meerkat vs viverrine

meerkat and viverrine both are nouns.

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

As nouns, viverrine is a hypernym of meerkat; that is, viverrine is a word with a broader meaning than meerkat:

meerkat: a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
viverrine: small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World

Other hypernyms of meerkat include viverrine mammal.

meerkat (noun)	viverrine (noun)
a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes	small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World