-suffixes to append to @var{filename} when searching. If
-@var{suffixes} is @code{nil}, it's equivalent to passing a list with a
-single element that is an empty string @code{""}.
-
-Typical values of @var{path} are @code{exec-path} (@pxref{Subprocess
+suffixes to append to @var{filename} when searching.
+@code{locate-file} tries each possible directory with each of these
+suffixes. If @var{suffixes} is @code{nil}, or @code{("")}, then there
+are no suffixes, and @var{filename} is used only as-is. Typical
+values of @var{suffixes} are @code{exec-suffixes} (@pxref{Subprocess
+Creation, exec-suffixes}) and @code{load-suffixes} (@pxref{Library
+Search, load-suffixes}).
+
+Typical values for @var{path} are @code{exec-path} (@pxref{Subprocess