misdiscover

verb

misdiscover

verb

Etymology From mis- + discover.

1

Rare 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:

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