brier

Briar or brier is a common name for a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants, including species in the genera Rosa, Rubus (see also bramble) and Smilax (such as Common greenbriar).

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

Given name

• Girls' name-meaning "Heather" in French.

Surnames

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

In fiction

• Briar Moss, from the Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets by Tamora Pierce
• The Briar King, a novel by Greg Keyes
• Black briar, 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

Ethnic Slur

• Briar, term used in the U.S. Midwest, especially Ohio, for Appalachian migrants from Kentucky and West Virginia. These migrants, seeking work in Midwestern industries, were generally considered unwelcome, therefore the analogy to a thorny weed.

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, a disambiguation page

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