misdiscover

mis- +‎ discover

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

1. (transitive, very rare) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
   • 1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history‎:

     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.