Brier

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Briar (also spelt brier) is a common name for a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants, including species in the genera Rosa (Rose), Rubus, and Smilax.

Briar, Briars or Brier may also refer to:

People

• Brier (surname)

Places

• Briar, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Ripley County
• Briar, Texas, a census-designated place (CDP) in Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties
• Briar Creek (Susquehanna River), a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania
• Brier Creek, a tributary of the Savannah River in the U.S. state of Georgia
• Brier Island, an island in the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia
• Brier, Washington, a city in Snohomish County

Buildings

• Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
• The Briars, also known as The Briars Homestead, Mount Martha, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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
• 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)
• In Barbara Allen, a well-known folk ballad, the title character is identified with a briar: for instance, Joan Baez's 1961 version has "Out of Sweet William's heart, there grew a rose, out of Barbara Allen's, a briar."^[1]

Other

• Brier score, a probability-related measure
• Briar wood, wood from the root of Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
• Briar (software), a project and application for mesh networking and resilient communications
• Tim Hortons Brier (or simply "The Brier"), the Canadian men's curling championship

See also

• Briar Patch (disambiguation)
• Blackbriar (disambiguation)
• Green brier
• Briers (disambiguation)

References