diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index 66857e768c..b194876a08 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@
     <title><filename>meta.bbclass</filename></title>
 
     <para>
-        The Metadata (<filename>meta</filename>) class is inherited by recipes
+        The <filename>meta</filename> class is inherited by recipes
         that do not build any output packages themselves, but act as a "meta"
         target for building other recipes.
     </para>