Usually means: Aquatic animal that generates electricity.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word electric eel:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. electric eel: Merriam-Webster
  2. electric eel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. electric eel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. electric eel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. electric eel: Vocabulary.com
  6. electric eel: Wordnik
  7. electric eel: Wiktionary
  8. electric eel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. electric eel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. electric eel: Dictionary.com
  11. Electric eel (disambiguation), Electric eel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. electric eel: Rhymezone
  13. electric eel: FreeDictionary.org
  14. electric eel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. electric eel, eel, electric: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. electric eel, eel, electric: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. electric eel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electric Eel, the electric eel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See electric_eels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (electric eel)

noun:  (strictly) Electrophorus electricus, a species of fish resembling an eel (though not related) that is capable of generating powerful electric shocks.
noun:  (loosely) Any species of the genus Electrophorus.
noun:  A plumber's snake powered by electricity.

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