• Brier or briar is a common name for a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants, including species in the genera Rosa, Rubus and Smilax.
  • See also: Briar Patch for other meanings.
• Briar wood is the root wood of Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes.

It is also the name of a sports event: Raised thorns on the stem of the wait-a-bit climber Thorns on rose stems A spine is a rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant, presumably serving as a defense against attack by predators. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ... Species About 100, see text A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa and the flower of this shrub. ... Species See text. ... Species See list of Smilax species Smilax is a genus of about 200 species of perennial woody and thorny climbing flowering plants in the monocotyledon family Smilacaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. ... In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Briar Patch is a fictional nebula in sector 441 in Star Trek: Insurrection. ... Binomial nomenclature Erica arborea Ref: ITIS 505949 The Tree Heath is a shrub or small evergreen tree with a height of 1-4 (-7) m. ... Youth with pipe, by Hendrick Jansz Terbrugghen A smoking pipe is a device used for smoking combustible substances such as tobacco and cannabis. ...

• The Brier, the Canadian men's curling championship, see Tim Hortons Brier.

It is also a place name: The Tim Hortons Brier is an annual professional Canadian mens curling championship, sanctioned by the Canadian Curling Association. ... Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. ... The Tim Hortons Brier is the annual Canadian mens curling championship, sanctioned by the Canadian Curling Association. ...

• A town, Brier, Washington.
• Briar, Missouri, zipcode 63931

And a surname: Brier is a city located in Snohomish County, Washington. ...

• An American actor and singer, Kathy Brier.
• A British actor, Richard Briers.

And the first name of a fictional character. Kathy Brier, in a still from One Life to Live. ... Richard Briers CBE (born on January 14, 1934 in Raynes Park, London), is an English actor whose career encompasses the theatre, television, film and radio. ...

• Briar Moss, from the Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets by Tamora Pierce.