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The shape of the unerupted adult teeth revealed that Alesi belonged to a genus, or group of species, known as Nyanzapithecus, a sister group to the hominoids that was discovered about 30 years ago.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2017

And the skull’s intact braincase, which has preserved impressions of the brain’s exterior surface, also contains the infant ape’s unerupted adult teeth.

From National Geographic • Aug. 9, 2017

When the condition is due to a carious stump or to an unerupted tooth, this should be extracted at the same time as the abscess is opened.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

But in the unerupted species of lava, that is to say, in our whin-stone, every species of mineral appearance is occasionally to be found.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James