Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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).

   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.