suricate vs mierkat

suricate and mierkat both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mierkat is a hypernym of suricate; that is, mierkat is a word with a broader meaning than suricate:

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

Other hypernyms of suricate include meerkat.

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