almug
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 Al·mug Al·gum n.  Script. A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
 Note: ☞ Most writers at the present day follow Celsius, who takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the Indian Archipelago.

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 Almug
    (1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the
    Hebrew occurring only in the plural _almuggim_ (indicating that
    the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from
    Ophir to be used in the building of the temple, and for other
    purposes. Some suppose it to have been the white sandal-wood of
    India, the Santalum album of botanists, a native of the
    mountainous parts of the Malabar coasts. It is a fragrant wood,
    and is used in China for incense in idol-worship. Others, with
    some probability, think that it was the Indian red sandal-wood,
    the pterocarpus santalinus, a heavy, fine-grained wood, the
    Sanscrit name of which is valguka. It is found on the Coromandel
    coast and in Ceylon.