misimprint

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ imprint

Verb

misimprint (third-person singular simple present misimprints, present participle misimprinting, simple past and past participle misimprinted)

1. To imprint wrongly.
   • 1977, Dorothy Rogers, Issues in child psychology (page 62)

     That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults.