diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.1.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.1.0.ebuild
index e4ac48c365be0..21858f8b882d6 100644
--- a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.1.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.1.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib
 # weird failures
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.parrot.org/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.11.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.11.0.ebuild
index 8c805442553ca..e81e39db86952 100644
--- a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.11.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.11.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib
 # weird failures
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.parrot.org/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.5.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.5.0.ebuild
index 8c805442553ca..e81e39db86952 100644
--- a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-7.5.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib
 # weird failures
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.parrot.org/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-8.1.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-8.1.0.ebuild
index 8c805442553ca..e81e39db86952 100644
--- a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-8.1.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-8.1.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib
 # weird failures
 RESTRICT="test"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.parrot.org/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"