Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to: * Briar, or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form

thicket A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large numbers of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in t ...

People

* Brier (surname) *

Briers Briers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Lee Briers (born 1978), Welsh rugby league player *Lucy Briers (born 1967), English actress *Mark Briers (born 1968), former English cricketer *Nigel Briers (born 1955), former English ...

, a surname * Briars (surname)

Places

Briar, Missouri Briar is an unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 160, approximately seven miles west of Doniphan. A variant name was Briarcreek. A post office called Briar Creek was established in 1879, ...

, U.S. *

Briar, Texas Briar is a census-designated place (CDP) in Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas, near the west side of Eagle Mountain Lake.The population was 5,665 at the 2010 census. Geography Briar is located at (32.973507, -97.5407 ...

, U.S. * Briars Historic Park,

Mount Martha, Victoria Mount Martha is a suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Mount Martha recorded a po ...

, Australia *

The Briars (Georgina) The Briars is an Ontario lakeside resort located in the Jackson's Point area of Georgina, Ontario. Portions of the resort are protected by an Ontario Heritage Trust conservation easement. The Manor House and the Peacock House are the protected se ...

, Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort *

Brier, Washington Brier is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is bordered by Mountlake Terrace to the west, Lynnwood to the north, Bothell to the east, and Lake Forest Park to the south. The population was 6,087 at the 2010 census. Hist ...

, U.S. * Briers, Mississippi, , U.S., a ghost town *

Brier Island Brier Island is an island in the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia. Geography The island is the westernmost part of Nova Scotia and the southern end of the North Mountain ridge with Long Island lying immediately northeast; both islands ...

, Nova Scotia, Canada *

Briar Creek (disambiguation) Briar Creek or Brier Creek may refer to: Streams *Brier Creek (Savannah River tributary), in Georgia, U.S. *Brier Creek (Susquehanna River tributary), in Otsego County, New York, U.S. *Briar Creek (Susquehanna River tributary), in Pennsylvania, U.S ...

, or Brier Creek *

Briar Hill (disambiguation) Briar Hill may refer to the following places: * Briar Hill, Victoria, Australia * Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill, Calgary, Alberta, Canada * Briar Hill, Michigan, ghost town * Briar Hill (Michigan), the highest point in the Lower Peninsula of Michi ...

Brier Hill (disambiguation) Brier Hill is a neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. Brier Hill may also refer to: * Brier Hill, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community **Brier Hill (Brier Hill, Pennsylvania), a national historic district * Brier Hill, Ontario, Leeds and th ...

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Briars, Saint Helena Briars is the name of the small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed for the first few weeks of his exile on Saint Helena in late 1815 before being moved to Longwood House. The pavilion was in the garden of William Balcombe, an English m ...

, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed *

The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi) The Briars is a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. It was built in 1818 for a large planter. Varina Davis, the First Lady of the Confederate States of America, spent her adolescence in the house. It is listed on the National Register of ...

, U.S., a historic house *

The Briars, Wahroonga The Briars is a heritage-listed residence located at 14 Woonona Avenue, in the Sydney suburb of Wahroonga in the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Charles H. Halstead. It was added to ...

, Sydney, Australia, a historic house

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Briar Moss ''Circle of Magic'' is a quartet of fantasy novels by Tamora Pierce, set in Emelan, a fictional realm in a pseudo-medieval and renaissance era. It revolves around four young mages, each specializing in a different kind of magic, as they learn to ...

, from Tamora Pierce's ''Circle of Magic'' and ''Circle Opens'' quartets *

Briar Cudgeon This is a list of characters in the ''Artemis Fowl'' novel series by Eoin Colfer. Overview * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's presence in the property has yet to be announced. * ...

, in ''Artemis Fowl'' * Briar, the evil sister of Rose in

Bone (comics) ''Bone'' is an American independently-published graphic novel series, written and illustrated by Jeff Smith, originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004. The series was self-published by Smith's Cartoon Books for i ...

Br'er Rabbit Br'er Rabbit (an abbreviation of ''Brother Rabbit'', also spelled Brer Rabbit) is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Bah ...

, a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States * Briar, in the cartoon series

Boonie Bears ''Boonie Bears'' (, "Roaming Bears" ; Bear Hunting) is a Chinese animated cartoon series shown on multiple Chinese platforms and television stations, including Central China Television (CCTV) and Beijing Television Network (BTV). The series f ...

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* Briar root, wood from ''

Erica arborea ''Erica arborea'', the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. It is also cultivated as an or ...

'', used for making smoking pipes **Briar, a type of

tobacco pipe A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. Pipes can range from very sim ...

Briar (software) Briar is an open-source software communication technology, intended to provide secure and resilient peer-to-peer communications with no centralized servers and minimal reliance on external infrastructure. Messages can be transmitted through Blueto ...

, an open-source software communication technology *

Tim Hortons Brier The Tim Hortons Brier, or simply (and more commonly) the Brier (''french: Le Brier''), is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The current event name refers to its main sponsor, the Tim Hortons coffee and ...

, or the Brier, the Canadian men's curling championship

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