diff --git a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/map.rs b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/map.rs
index b38c5848b4907..885632c69a8cc 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/map.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/map.rs
@@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ pub(super) const MIN_LEN: usize = node::MIN_LEN_AFTER_SPLIT;
 /// incorrect results, aborts, memory leaks, or non-termination) but will not be undefined
 /// behavior.
 ///
-/// Iterators yielded by functions such as [`BTreeMap::iter`], [`BTreeMap::values`], or [`BTreeMap::keys`]
-/// yield their items in order by key, and take worst-case logarithmic and amortized constant time per item yielded.
+/// Iterators obtained from functions such as [`BTreeMap::iter`], [`BTreeMap::values`], or
+/// [`BTreeMap::keys`] produce their items in order by key, and take worst-case logarithmic and
+/// amortized constant time per item returned.
 ///
 /// [B-Tree]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
 /// [`Cell`]: core::cell::Cell
diff --git a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/set.rs b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/set.rs
index b32f539958861..31df4e98ed746 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/set.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/set.rs
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ use super::Recover;
 /// incorrect results, aborts, memory leaks, or non-termination) but will not be undefined
 /// behavior.
 ///
-/// Iterators returned by [`BTreeSet::iter`] yield their items in order,
-/// and take worst-case logarithmic and amortized constant time per item yielded.
+/// Iterators returned by [`BTreeSet::iter`] produce their items in order, and take worst-case
+/// logarithmic and amortized constant time per item returned.
 ///
 /// [`Ord`]: core::cmp::Ord
 /// [`Cell`]: core::cell::Cell