افتل doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• افتل Form 4

  4 افتل ذ said of [trees of the species termed] سَلَم and سَمُر, (K,) or افتلت said of a سَمُرَة (M, O) and of a سَلَمَة, (M,) They, or it, put forth, or produced, the فَتْلَة [q. v.] thereof. (M, O, K.)…

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