Brier

Briar or brier is a common name for a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants, including species in these genera:

• Rosa (Rose)
• Rubus
• Smilax, a genus of about 300-350 species, found in temperate zones, tropics and subtropics worldwide

Briar or Brier may also refer to:

Sports

• Tim Hortons Brier (or simply "The Brier"), the Canadian men's curling championship

Place names

• Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Briar, Missouri, in Ripley County
• Brier, Washington, in Snohomish County
• Brier River, Georgia
• Brier Creek, Georgia
• Briars, St Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
• Briar, Texas, in Wise Counties, population 5,350

Surname

• Bob Brier (born 1943), American Egyptologist
• Kathy Brier (born 1975), an American actor and singer
• Markus Brier (born 1968), an Austrian golfer
• Richard Briers (born 1934), a British actor

Fiction

• Briar Rose, the name of Sleeping Beauty in some versions of the story
• Briar Moss, from the Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets by Tamora Pierce
• The Briar King, a novel by Greg Keyes
• Blackbriar, a fictional top secret CIA program from the book and movie The Bourne Ultimatum
• Huckleberry Briar, a district in Strawberryland from the Strawberry Shortcake series, where Huckleberry Pie resides
• Briar Cudgeon, a crazed ex-commander who wants revenge from Artemis Fowl
• Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comic)

Mathematics

• Brier score, a probability-related measure

See also

• Briar wood is wood from the root of Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
• Briar Patch (disambiguation)
• Briers (a surname)
• Green brier