misdiscover

Verb

misdiscover (third-person singular simple present misdiscovers, present participle misdiscovering, simple past and past participle misdiscovered)

1. (rare, transitive) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
   • And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of "peopling" the continent and developing "the" American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history