Usually means: Incorrectly named or wrongly identified.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. miscalled: Merriam-Webster
  2. miscalled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. miscalled: Vocabulary.com
  4. miscalled: Wordnik
  5. miscalled: Wiktionary
  6. miscalled: Dictionary.com
  7. miscalled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. miscalled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miscalled: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (miscall)

verb:  (now dialectal) To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
verb:  To call (someone or something) incorrectly or by the wrong title or name.
verb:  To make a wrong call (prediction or announcement).
verb:  (politics) To announce the result of an election incorrectly.
verb:  (poker) To announce one's hand of cards incorrectly.
noun:  An incorrect call.
noun:  Archaic form of miskal.
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