Also trysle, trysel(l, trissle. [Said to be native name among the Arawak Indians.] Name in British Guiana for a timber-tree, Pentaclethra filamentosa.
1862. List Contrib. fr. Brit. Guiana to Lond. Exhib., Arrara, or Tryssil (Pentaclethra filamentosa, Benth.). Used for furniture and staves.
1878. Woods Brit Guiana collected by M. McTurk for local & Paris Internat. Exhib., 1. Kooroo-balli or Trysil, from the Moraballi Creek, Essequebo River … is a dark close-grained wood suitable for making furniture.
1881. Rep. Crown Surveyor Brit. Guiana for 1880, 24. Trysell. A beautiful light brown wood, close-grained and hard.
1912. C. W. Anderson, Forests Brit. Guiana, 23. Trysil or Koro-balli.
