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almug n. 檀香樹 檀香樹 Almug \ Al" mug\, Algum \ Al" gum\, n. [ Heb., perh. borrowed fr. Skr. valguka sandalwood.] ( Script.) A tree or wood of the Bible ( 2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11). [ 1913 Webster] Note: Most writers at the present day follow Celsius, who takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the Indian Archipelago. -- W. Smith. [ 1913 Webster] 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.
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