Dictionary entry overview: What does colloquial mean? â¢ COLLOQUIAL (adjective) The adjective COLLOQUIAL has 1 sense: 1. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation Familiarity information: COLLOQUIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Noble firs are beautiful, impressive trees - the largest firs. It is possible that highest noble firs fairly recently exceeded 100 m height but today the highest tree of this species grows at the Goat Marsh - in 1989 it was 89.9 m tall. Unfortunately this tree is dead by now and maybe even is not standing anymore.
While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically-recorded tree. The Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15 to 25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume.