Almug

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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).
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     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.
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.