Almug Tree, or ALGUM TREE. This name, occurring in the Old Testament, was formerly supposed to denote a species of acacia, or a coniferous tree like the cypress; but it is now thought more probable that it was one of the kinds of Sandalwood (q.v.), the Santalum album, a native of India.
Almug Tree
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 183
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