| Austroasiatic |
a language family of Southeast Asia that includes Vietnamese and Khmer. |
| Cambodia |
a Southeast Asian country between Vietnam and Thailand; Kampuchea. |
| catechu |
any of several water-soluble astringent substances obtained from various tropical plants of southeast Asia such as the acacia, used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing. |
| catty2 |
a unit of weight used in Southeast Asia, equal to 680 grams, or about one and one half pounds, but in China equal to five hundred grams. |
| Chocolate Tang |
any member of a species of fishes found in the tropical waters of Southeast Asia which are yellow as a juvenile and become primarily gray and brown with multi-colored accents as an adult, also called Lemon Peel Mimic. |
| durian |
the Southeast Asian tree that bears this fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
| East Timor |
a country in Southeast Asia that consists mainly of the eastern part of the island of Timor, which it shares with the nation of Indonesia. |
| Hmong |
an ethnic group of Asia whose homeland includes the mountainous regions of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. [1/2 definitions] |
| Indochina |
a large Southeast Asian peninsula south of China, between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. |
| Indo-European |
of or pertaining to a family of languages that share such characteristics as inflection, grammatical number, and usu. gender, including most European and many Indian and Southeast Asian languages. [2/5 definitions] |
| Laos |
a Southeast Asian country between Vietnam and Thailand. |
| Malay Archipelago |
a large group of islands that stretches from Southeast Asia to Australia and includes Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines. |
| Malay Peninsula |
a Southeast Asian peninsula occupied by Malaya and part of Thailand. |
| Malaysia |
a country in Southeast Asia, including Malaya, Sumatra, Sabah, and Sarawak. |
| mimic octopus |
a type of brown octopus that lives along the shallow muddy bottoms of river mouths off the coast of Southeast Asia that has the capability of mimicking toxic species, such as sole, lionfish, and seasnake. |
| monitor |
any of a variety of large carnivorous lizards of Southeast Asia and Australia; monitor lizard. [1/11 definitions] |
| Myanmar |
a Southeast Asian country between India and Thailand; formerly Burma. |
| North Vietnam |
a former Southeast Asian country that occupied the northern part of Vietnam and in 1975 absorbed South Vietnam to become the reunified Vietnam. |
| nux vomica |
the poisonous seed of a tropical tree of southeast Asia that yields strychnine and other alkaloids. [1/2 definitions] |
| Philippine mahogany |
any of various Philippine and southeast Asian trees that yield a reddish wood resembling mahogany. [1/2 definitions] |
| rhinoceros |
one of several species of large, plant-eating, hoofed mammals native to Africa and Southeast Asia, having a very thick hide and one or two vertical horns on the snout. |