algum (algum)

A tree, in the time of Solomon and Hiram, growing on Mount Lebanon, along with cedar and fir-trees, sought for the construction of the temple; according to both the Septuagint and Vulgate versions, the pine. It was not identical with the almug-tree, which was brought from Ophir. See almug. Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon. 2 Chron. ii. 8. alhacena (äl-ä-thā'nä), n. [Sp., in Spain, and is of the style of the fourteenth century.