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diff --git a/lib/feature.pm b/lib/feature.pm
index a1953e292e..cdffa6839b 100644
--- a/lib/feature.pm
+++ b/lib/feature.pm
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ couldn't be changed without breaking some things that had come to rely on
them, so the feature can be enabled and disabled. Details are at
L<perlfunc/Under the "unicode_eval" feature>.
-C<evalbytes> is like string C<eval>, but operating on a byte stream that is
-not UTF-8 encoded. Details are at L<perlfunc/evalbytes EXPR>. Without a
+C<evalbytes> is like string C<eval>, but it treats its argument as a byte
+string. Details are at L<perlfunc/evalbytes EXPR>. Without a
S<C<use feature 'evalbytes'>> nor a S<C<use v5.16>> (or higher) declaration in
the current scope, you can still access it by instead writing
C<CORE::evalbytes>.