Usage Note
Pulce is feminine despite ending in -e: la pulce. The idiom avere la pulce nell'orecchio ('to have a flea in one's ear') means to be suspicious or to have nagging doubts — a very common expression. The plural is regular: le pulci.
Examples
"Il gatto aveva le pulci."
Natural Translation
The cat had fleas.

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