diff --git a/Objects/genobject.c b/Objects/genobject.c
index 88814c3578af6e..f1fd995a246ed9 100644
--- a/Objects/genobject.c
+++ b/Objects/genobject.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ gen_send_ex(PyGenObject *gen, PyObject *arg, int exc, int closing)
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(send_doc,
-"send(arg) -> send 'arg' into generator,\n\
+"send(value) -> send 'value' into generator,\n\
 return next yielded value or raise StopIteration.");
 
 static PyObject *