Brier

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 (brambles), and Smilax

People and characters

• Brier (surname)
• Briers, a surname
• Briar (surname)
• Briars (surname)
• Briar Blush, an American drag performer.

Fictional characters

• 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
• Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics)
• Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears
• Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High
• Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl
• Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets
• Briar Raleigh, a Marvel Comics character associated with Magneto
• Briar Rose, a name associated with Sleeping Beauty, in some (including Brothers Grimm) versions of the story

Places

• Briar, Missouri, U.S.
• Briar, Texas, U.S.
• 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, Mount Martha, on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, an historic homestead named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena
  • The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, an historic house named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena and The Briars, in Mount Martha
• The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., 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
• Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology
• Brier score, a metric to assess the predictive quality of a model

See also

• 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