The definitive description of shoggoths comes from the above-quoted story.

The definitive description of the subject from this period is Maxfield and Harrison's 1926 paper.

In contrast, ordinary names such as "Socrates" actually are definitive descriptions.

It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, though there are several elements common to many European legends.

The simple yet definitive description of the cold killers had confused Wulfgar.

And it is confusing: there is no one place to look for a definitive description of the job.

But nowhere did I see a definitive description of his personality or character, his likes and dislikes.

Nor do I offer this book as the definitive description of the war in Vietnam.

This book was quickly accepted as a definitive description of glass production during ancient Rome.

Truly definitive descriptions of familiar human artifacts are profoundly rare in fiction, but certainly this is one of them.