diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b1c8939fdd..f4bfe4cf08 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def long_description():
     author="UK Met Office",
     author_email="scitools-iris-dev@googlegroups.com",
     description="A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python "
-    "library for analysing and visualising Earth science data",
+    "package for analysing and visualising Earth science data",
     long_description=long_description(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     packages=find_package_tree("lib/iris", "iris"),