Meanings of noxious weed in English

In 1790, prejudice started up as a noxious weed in its place.

Each time I solve a crisis, another springs forth like a noxious weed.

He suddenly found he had no desire for the noxious weed!

The tar was mixed with bits of some noxious weed.

It grieves me to hear it called a " noxious weed."

New Zealand First is questioning why maize has been imported from Bulgaria that's riddled with a noxious weed.

The wandering savage grows no cultivated vegetable, fells no forest, and extirpates no useful plant, no noxious weed.

Should I ever forsake you, may I be accursed, may my body wither like a useless and noxious weed!'

The seed of new doctrines bore indeed many lovely but exotic blossoms in the saintly times, and also many a noxious weed.

Further on we shall find this noxious weed, that flourishes in the vineyards whose hedges are broken down, producing its poisonous fruit.

Worrall Thompson, who mixed up the noxious weed with the distinctly more edible fat hen, admitted the mistake was "embarrassing".

Cancer is not a microbe; it's a tissue, growing in the wrong place, and like a noxious weed smothering all the neighbouring tissues.

Then, as she stoops to pluck the noxious weed from off the sod, a tear will fall, and consecrate the spot to Charity.

Would it not be appropriate to have lengths of roads sponsored by interested commercial parties in pursuit of the eradication of this noxious weed?

His palate has become narcotized by the noxious weed, and he has lost, in a great measure, the delicate and enviable taste for fruits.

I should add that in New Zealand's north island, to which it was introduced, it has run riot and is classed as a noxious weed.