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.
There are 6 countries in East Asia. They are China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Taiwan. A few times, Taiwan is under Southeast Asia region since it is consid â¦ erably close to the Philippines. Some of China's provinces even jut into Southeast Asia. 22 people found this useful.