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.
Where is Philippines located on the world map? The given Philippines location map shows that Philippines is located in the western Pacific Ocean which is part of south-east of Asia continent.hilippines map also shows that it is a group of islands surrounded by the Philippine Sea in the east, Selebes Sea in the south, Sulu Sea in the south-west, South China Sea in the west, and in the north, it is separated by Luzon Strait from Taiwan.