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'''Briar''' or '''brier''' is a common name for a number of unrelated thicket-forming [[Spine (botany)|thorny]] [[plant]]s, including species in the [[genus|genera]] ''[[rose|Rosa]]'', ''[[Rubus]]'' and ''[[Smilax]]''.
'''Briar''' or '''Brier''' may also refer to:
;Sports
* [[Tim Hortons Brier]] (or simply "The Brier"), the Canadian men's [[curling]] championship
;Place names
* [[Briar, Missouri]], in [[Ripley County, Missouri|Ripley County]]
* [[Brier, Washington]], in [[Snohomish County, Washington|Snohomish County]]
;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]]
* [[Blackbriar|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 [[List of Strawberry Shortcake characters#Huckleberry Pie|Huckleberry Pie]] resides
;Ethnic Slur
*[[List of ethnic slurs|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 pipe]]s.
*[[Briar Patch]], a disambiguation page
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