0 Something, especially a gas or other substance, that is noxious is poisonous or very harmful: --
1 (esp. of a gas) poisonous or harmful: --
noxious gases
The neural body was pure but susceptible to outside noxious infections.
The most noxious form from the president's perspective is party-balancing limitations on appointments.
Any form of "noxious effluvia," particularly that expelled from the body, would have been held suspect.
Furthermore, one would expect the public to demand controls on the more noxious and toxic pollutants which create the greatest disutility at the local level.
Reportage concentrated on the noxious impact of sewage and ignored or exonerated the misdemeanors of industrialists.
The atmosphere "was noxious beyond description" and he writes that seven people died of typhus fever as a result.
Both observations suggest that there are noxious substances in the seed coat.
Of these, 17 cells were also excited by noxious somatic stimuli applied in the lower part of the body.
