diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
index 3f9584928c..8a4674e5f2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ FROM <replaceable>table_reference</replaceable> <optional>, <replaceable>table_r
         input tables.  As with <literal>USING</literal>, these columns appear
         only once in the output table.  If there are no common
         column names, <literal>NATURAL JOIN</literal> behaves like
-        <literal>JOIN ... ON TRUE</literal>, producing a cross-product join.
+        <literal>CROSS JOIN</literal>.
        </para>
 
        <note>
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ GROUPING SETS (
 
    <para>
     If multiple grouping items are specified in a single <literal>GROUP BY</literal>
-    clause, then the final list of grouping sets is the cross product of the
+    clause, then the final list of grouping sets is the Cartesian product of the
     individual items.  For example:
 <programlisting>
 GROUP BY a, CUBE (b, c), GROUPING SETS ((d), (e))