diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sinfo.1 b/doc/man/man1/sinfo.1
index c28c9cd8ea32658800d94c58cf3c2993cc260a5a..8186484bac8b5f58620836410cee9527843912ac 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sinfo.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sinfo.1
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to
 
 .TP
 \fB\-N\fR, \fB\-\-Node\fR
-Print information in a node\-oriented format.
+Print information in a node\-oriented format with one line per node.
 The default is to print information in a partition\-oriented format.
 This is ignored if the \fB\-\-format\fR option is specified.