tooth. 1. (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usu. attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
In a second, larger sense, East Indies refers to the Malay Archipelago (including the Philippines), which now is more commonly called insular (or archipelagic) Southeast Asia. Finally, in its broadest context, the term East Indies encompasses the foregoing plus all of mainland Southeast Asia and India.
In Continents. South East Asia is often defined by ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations), including 10 countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Bur â¦ ma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.sia Minor (Turkey) is at the extreme west of what is considered to be Asia proper. It has no connection with Southeast Asia whatsoever, which is made up of the countries of V â¦ ietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, etc. + 2 others found this useful.