Brier
Appearance
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
[edit]- Brier (surname)
- Briers, a surname
- Briars (surname)
Fictional characters
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Briar
- All pages with titles containing Briar
- All pages with titles containing Briars
- All pages with titles beginning with Brier
- All pages with titles containing Brier
- All pages with titles containing Briers
- 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