diff --git a/docs/development/c-bindings.rst b/docs/development/c-bindings.rst
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 name and wrap it in parentheses, and then put ``= NULL`` at the end).
 
 Note how types don't need to be conditionally defined, as long as all
-the necessarily typedefs are in place.
+the necessarily type definitions are in place.
 
 Finally, add an entry to ``CONDITIONAL_NAMES`` with all of the things
 you want to conditionally export::