diff --git a/app/pdb/selection-cmds.c b/app/pdb/selection-cmds.c
index 8ad3b82..eaa6a10 100644
--- a/app/pdb/selection-cmds.c
+++ b/app/pdb/selection-cmds.c
@@ -978,9 +978,8 @@
                                "gimp-selection-flood");
   gimp_procedure_set_static_strings (procedure,
                                      "gimp-selection-flood",
-                                     "Remove holes from the image's selection",
-                                     "This procedure removes holes from the selection, that can come from selecting a patchy area with the Fuzzy Select Tool. "
-                                     "In technical terms this procedure floods the selection. See the Algorithms page in the developer wiki for details.",
+                                     "Flood the image's selection",
+                                     "This procedure removes holes from the selection, that can come from selecting a patchy area with the Fuzzy Select Tool. In technical terms this procedure floods the selection. See the Algorithms page in the developer wiki for details.",
                                      "Ell",
                                      "Ell",
                                      "2016",
diff --git a/libgimp/gimpselection_pdb.c b/libgimp/gimpselection_pdb.c
index 488c7a1..f366fd9 100644
--- a/libgimp/gimpselection_pdb.c
+++ b/libgimp/gimpselection_pdb.c
@@ -505,10 +505,10 @@
  *
  * Flood the image's selection
  *
- * This procedure floods the selection. Flooding assigns to each pixel
- * of the selection mask the minimum of the maxima of all paths from
- * that pixel to the outside, as if the selection mask were a height
- * map of a terrain flooded with water.
+ * This procedure removes holes from the selection, that can come from
+ * selecting a patchy area with the Fuzzy Select Tool. In technical
+ * terms this procedure floods the selection. See the Algorithms page
+ * in the developer wiki for details.
  *
  * Returns: TRUE on success.
  *
diff --git a/tools/pdbgen/pdb/selection.pdb b/tools/pdbgen/pdb/selection.pdb
index dc5def8..402529c 100644
--- a/tools/pdbgen/pdb/selection.pdb
+++ b/tools/pdbgen/pdb/selection.pdb
@@ -427,10 +427,10 @@
     $blurb = "Flood the image's selection";
 
     $help .= <<'HELP';
-This procedure floods the selection. Flooding assigns to each pixel
-of the selection mask the minimum of the maxima of all paths from
-that pixel to the outside, as if the selection mask were a height
-map of a terrain flooded with water.
+This procedure removes holes from the selection, that can come from 
+selecting a patchy area with the Fuzzy Select Tool. 
+In technical terms this procedure floods the selection. 
+See the Algorithms page in the developer wiki for details.
 HELP
 
     $author = 'Ell';