Brier Explained

Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to:

• Briar, or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets, including species in the genera Rosa (Rose), Rubus, and Smilax

People and characters

• Brier (surname)
• Briers, a surname
• Briars (surname)

Fictional characters

• Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets
• Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl
• Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics)
• Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears
• Briar, a playable character in the video game League of Legends
• Briar, a character in the video game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's downloadable content expansion pack The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero

Places

• Briar, Missouri, U.S.
• Briar, Texas, U.S.
• Briars Historic Park, Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia
• The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort
• Brier, Washington, U.S.
• Briers, Mississippi,, U.S., a ghost town
• Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek
• Briar Hill (disambiguation)
• Brier Hill (disambiguation)

Facilities and structures

• Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
• The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house
• The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, a historic house

Other uses

• Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
  • Briar, a type of tobacco pipe
• The Brier, a bonspiel, the Canadian men's curling championship; variously called over the years the "MacDonald Tobacco Brier", "Labatt Brier", "Nokia Brier", "Tim Horton's Brier", "Montana's Bar and Grill Brier"
• Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology

See also

• • • • • • • Briar Patch (disambiguation)
• Briar Rose (disambiguation)
• Brière (disambiguation)
• Blackbriar (disambiguation)
• Greenbrier (disambiguation)
• The Briar King, a 2003 novel by Greg Keyes
• Brier score, a probability-related measure