diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
index fbb9d5faef..f0bb08e1da 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,12 @@
             with BitBake (baked) and made part of a root filesystem.
             Images are both the binary output that runs on specific hardware and for specific
             use cases as well as a metadata recipe that BitBake processes to generate the 
-            binary output.</para></listitem>
+            binary output.
+            For a list of the supported image types that the Yocto Project provides, see the
+            <ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-images'>
+            Reference: Images</ulink> appendix in
+            <ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html'>
+            The Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>.</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para><emphasis>Recipe</emphasis> - A set of instructions for building packages.  
             A recipe describes where you get source code and which patches to apply.
             Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other recipes and they 
@@ -155,6 +160,14 @@
         <listitem><para><emphasis>Metadata</emphasis> - A term used throughout the Yocto Project 
             documentation that refers to the files that BitBake parses when building an image. 
             Metadata includes recipes, classes, and configuration files.</para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para><emphasis>Meta-Toolchain</emphasis> - A collection of software development
+            tools and utilities that allow you to develop software for targeted architectures.
+            These toolchains contain cross-compilers, linkers, and debuggers that are specific to 
+            an architecure.
+            You can use the Yocto Project to build meta-toolchains in tarball form that when 
+            unpacked contain the development tools you need to cross-compile and test your software.
+            The Yocto Project ships with images that contain toolchains for supported architectures
+            as well.</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para><emphasis>Configuration File</emphasis>:  Configuration information in the 
             <filename>.conf</filename> files provides global definitions of variables.  
             The <filename>build/conf/local.conf</filename> configuration file defines user-defined variables